Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 122
... virtue do not go necessarily together . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's author- ity will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was restored to ...
... virtue do not go necessarily together . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's author- ity will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was restored to ...
Page 339
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it ...
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it ...
Page 435
... virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar , but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevails over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba ; and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of ...
... virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar , but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevails over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba ; and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of ...
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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