The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , + near The difficulty of settling ...
... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , + near The difficulty of settling ...
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... hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or ...
... hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or ...
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... hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con- vey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money ...
... hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con- vey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money ...
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... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , 1 doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of ...
... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , 1 doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of ...
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... of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petulance of Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not shamed FENTON .
... of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petulance of Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not shamed FENTON .
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence faults favour Fenton fore fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Ireland kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke mentioned mind nature neral never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems sent shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young