Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 49
... imagination he acquiesced ; he thought them good , and did not seek for better . His works may be read a long time without the occurrence of a single line that stands prominent from the rest . The poem on Creation has , however , the ...
... imagination he acquiesced ; he thought them good , and did not seek for better . His works may be read a long time without the occurrence of a single line that stands prominent from the rest . The poem on Creation has , however , the ...
Page 318
... imagination ranges at full liberty without straggling into scenes of fable . The story , thus skilfully adopted , has been diligently improved . Pope has left nothing behind him , which seems more the effect of studious perseverance and ...
... imagination ranges at full liberty without straggling into scenes of fable . The story , thus skilfully adopted , has been diligently improved . Pope has left nothing behind him , which seems more the effect of studious perseverance and ...
Page 437
... imagination , would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole , and in the whole ...
... imagination , would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme . The excellence of this work is not exactness , but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole , and in the whole ...
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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