Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be ...
Page 348
... common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recol- lect in his poem of Autumn ; but was not considered by his master as superior to common boys , though in those early days he amused his patron ...
... common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recol- lect in his poem of Autumn ; but was not considered by his master as superior to common boys , though in those early days he amused his patron ...
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... common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be redolent of joy and youth . Of the Ode on ...
... common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be redolent of joy and youth . Of the Ode on ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young