Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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... language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves reduced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author , could translate him . From such rivals little can be feared ...
... language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves reduced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author , could translate him . From such rivals little can be feared ...
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... language more poetical as it was more remote from 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 ...
... language more poetical as it was more remote from 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 ...
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... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double ... language is unlike the language of other poets . In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common ...
... language is laboured into harshness . The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double ... language is unlike the language of other poets . In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common ...
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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