Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
Page 351
... poetical invective against the ministry , whom the nation then thought not forward enough in resenting the depredations of the Spaniards . By this piece he declared himself an adherent to the opposition , and had therefore no favour to ...
... poetical invective against the ministry , whom the nation then thought not forward enough in resenting the depredations of the Spaniards . By this piece he declared himself an adherent to the opposition , and had therefore no favour to ...
Page 460
... 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 to be ...
... 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 to be ...
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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