Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 31
... seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason ...
... seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason ...
Page 67
... seems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which seem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to ...
... seems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience . I know not any of the Articles which seem to thwart his opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to ...
Page 440
... seems . ' But how to gain admission ? for access Is giv'n to none , but Juba and her brothers . But , raillery apart ... Seems to appear before them . Sempronius is , it seems , to pass for Juba in full day at Cato's house , where ...
... seems . ' But how to gain admission ? for access Is giv'n to none , but Juba and her brothers . But , raillery apart ... Seems to appear before them . Sempronius is , it seems , to pass for Juba in full day at Cato's house , where ...
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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