Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the island not dignified either by rhyme ...
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the island not dignified either by rhyme ...
Page 246
... praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty ... praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many ...
... praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty ... praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many ...
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... praise virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addi- son's professions and practice were at no great variance , since , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though his ...
... praise virtue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addi- son's professions and practice were at no great variance , since , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was passed , though his ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote