The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems , only because it is not the first . BUTLER . Or the great Author of " Hudibras " MILTON . 119.
... blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems , only because it is not the first . BUTLER . Or the great Author of " Hudibras " MILTON . 119.
Page 120
Samuel Johnson. BUTLER . Or the great Author of " Hudibras " there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem , by an unknown writer , and therefore of disputable authority ; and some account is in- cidentally given by Wood ...
Samuel Johnson. BUTLER . Or the great Author of " Hudibras " there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem , by an unknown writer , and therefore of disputable authority ; and some account is in- cidentally given by Wood ...
Page 121
... was published the first part , containing three cantos , of the poem of " Hudibras , " which , as Prior relates , was made known at court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it BUTLER . 121.
... was published the first part , containing three cantos , of the poem of " Hudibras , " which , as Prior relates , was made known at court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it BUTLER . 121.
Page 122
... Hudibras ; ' and that it was a reproach to the court , that a person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke always seemed to hearken to him with attention enough ; and after some time ...
... Hudibras ; ' and that it was a reproach to the court , that a person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke always seemed to hearken to him with attention enough ; and after some time ...
Page 124
... Hudibras " is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestic , the sentiments unborrowed and un- expected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not ...
... Hudibras " is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestic , the sentiments unborrowed and un- expected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not ...
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