Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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... poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made ...
... poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made ...
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... poet , blest beyond the poet's fate , Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace , Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw ...
... poet , blest beyond the poet's fate , Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise , and friend to learned ease , Content with science in the vale of peace , Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw ...
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... poet is proportionate to his labour . The same observation may be extended to all works of imagination , which are often influenced by causes wholly out of the performer's power , by hints of which he perceives not the origin , by ...
... poet is proportionate to his labour . The same observation may be extended to all works of imagination , which are often influenced by causes wholly out of the performer's power , by hints of which he perceives not the origin , by ...
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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