Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 86
Page 110
... lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ! These lines were at the beginning of the poems . Of a book written in a language not under- stood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ...
... lines not understood ; and why should Milton wish or want to hear them so often ! These lines were at the beginning of the poems . Of a book written in a language not under- stood , the beginning raises no more attention than the end ...
Page 329
Samuel Johnson. lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe , there is no example to be found of any correction or ... lines had their break , or caesura , DRYDEN 329.
Samuel Johnson. lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe , there is no example to be found of any correction or ... lines had their break , or caesura , DRYDEN 329.
Page 330
... lines of ten syllables , and from him Dryden professes to have adopted it . The Triplet and Alexandrine are not universally approved . Swift always censured them , and wrote some lines to ridicule them . In examining their propriety ...
... lines of ten syllables , and from him Dryden professes to have adopted it . The Triplet and Alexandrine are not universally approved . Swift always censured them , and wrote some lines to ridicule them . In examining their propriety ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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