The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... force or surprise the garrifon . The master , when Pigot was a school - boy , was barred - out at Lichfield , and the whole operation , as he faid , was planned and conducted by Addison . To judge better of the probability of this ftory ...
... force or surprise the garrifon . The master , when Pigot was a school - boy , was barred - out at Lichfield , and the whole operation , as he faid , was planned and conducted by Addison . To judge better of the probability of this ftory ...
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... force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no ftranger to the world , probably faw the selfishness of Pope's friend- fhip ; and , refolving that he should have the ...
... force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no ftranger to the world , probably faw the selfishness of Pope's friend- fhip ; and , refolving that he should have the ...
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... cannot be faid of the few papers entitled The Whig Ex- aminer , in which is exhibited all the force of malevolence and humorous fatire . Of gay this paper , which just appeared and expired , Swift this ADD 1 SON . 29.
... cannot be faid of the few papers entitled The Whig Ex- aminer , in which is exhibited all the force of malevolence and humorous fatire . Of gay this paper , which just appeared and expired , Swift this ADD 1 SON . 29.
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... force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory , yet Addifon's is confeffedly the beft performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the duft of learning his images are not borrowed merely from ...
... force . Many of our own writers tried their powers upon this year of victory , yet Addifon's is confeffedly the beft performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the duft of learning his images are not borrowed merely from ...
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... force ; and his brutal " and clamorous rage upon his refusal , and at " a time when Cato was fcarce out of fight , " and perhaps not out of hearing , at least , " some of his guards or domesticks must necef- " << farily be supposed to ...
... force ; and his brutal " and clamorous rage upon his refusal , and at " a time when Cato was fcarce out of fight , " and perhaps not out of hearing , at least , " some of his guards or domesticks must necef- " << farily be supposed to ...
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Addiſon afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer appear aſked becauſe beſt Cato cenfure character compofitions confidered converfation criticiſm critick defign defire diſcovered Dryden Dunciad eaſily eaſy Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph faid fame fatire fays feems fent fentiments fhall fhew fince firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed furely himſelf honour houſe Iliad intereft kindneſs king laft laſt leaſt lefs likewife Lord maſter ment mind moſt Mufe muſt nature neceffary never numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion perfonal perhaps pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reader reaſon ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtage ſtate Steele ſtudy ſuch ſuppoſed Swift Syphax Tatler themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought thouſand Tickell tion tranflation uſed verfe verfion verſes Whigs whofe whoſe write written wrote