Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works |
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... reader . The critical student of English Literary History , will find much valuable information in the notes appended to the edition which was pub- lished by Mr. Peter Cunningham in 1854 , in three volumes octavo . The author of the ...
... reader . The critical student of English Literary History , will find much valuable information in the notes appended to the edition which was pub- lished by Mr. Peter Cunningham in 1854 , in three volumes octavo . The author of the ...
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... reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different ...
... reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in different ...
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... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverse- ness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically ...
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... reader may perhaps cry out " Confu- sion wcise confounded . " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . - DONNE . 1 Who but ...
... reader may perhaps cry out " Confu- sion wcise confounded . " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . - DONNE . 1 Who but ...
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... reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
... reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic , have neither gallantry nor fondness . His ...
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acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind king known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published queen reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey Whigs write written wrote Young