The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 80
Page
... published with copyright for Continental circulation , but all purchasers are earnestly requested not to introduce the volumes . into England or into any British Colony . COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S.
... published with copyright for Continental circulation , but all purchasers are earnestly requested not to introduce the volumes . into England or into any British Colony . COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS . VOL . CCCCXVIII . JOHNSON'S.
Page 2
... " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds 2 COWLEY.
... " though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds 2 COWLEY.
Page 3
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his cotemporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention ...
Page 4
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . " This obligation ...
Page 5
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
Common terms and phrases
Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration Æneid afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse cæsura censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote