Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 151
... sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most pro- fligate of the rabble ; and sometimes , when he had not money to support even ...
... sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most pro- fligate of the rabble ; and sometimes , when he had not money to support even ...
Page 435
... sometimes smooth , and sometimes rugged ; his style is sometimes concatenated , and sometimes abrupt ; sometimes diffusive , and sometimes concise . His plan seems to have started in his mind at the present YOUNG 435.
... sometimes smooth , and sometimes rugged ; his style is sometimes concatenated , and sometimes abrupt ; sometimes diffusive , and sometimes concise . His plan seems to have started in his mind at the present YOUNG 435.
Page 438
... sometimes happily , as in his parallel of Quicksilver with Pleasure , which I have heard repeated with approbation by a Lady , of whose praise he would have been justly proud , and which is very ingenious , very subtle , and almost ...
... sometimes happily , as in his parallel of Quicksilver with Pleasure , which I have heard repeated with approbation by a Lady , of whose praise he would have been justly proud , and which is very ingenious , very subtle , and almost ...
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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