The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... reason , without eclipfing it , it requires fo much nicety to exhibit , that Addison feems to have been deterred from pro- fecuting his own defign . To Sir Roger , who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is ...
... reason , without eclipfing it , it requires fo much nicety to exhibit , that Addison feems to have been deterred from pro- fecuting his own defign . To Sir Roger , who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is ...
Page 35
... reason , with an account of declining health , and the neceffity of recefs and quiet . He now returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of So- crates ; a ...
... reason , with an account of declining health , and the neceffity of recefs and quiet . He now returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of So- crates ; a ...
Page 44
... reason to doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by fome difingenuous acts he endeavoured to obftruct it : Pope was not the only man whom ...
... reason to doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by fome difingenuous acts he endeavoured to obftruct it : Pope was not the only man whom ...
Page 59
... derives from the work which it endeavours to oppress . Why he pays no regard to the opinion of the audience , he gives his reason , by remark- ing , that Spence , C " A deference " " A deference is to be paid to a ADD 1 SON . 59.
... derives from the work which it endeavours to oppress . Why he pays no regard to the opinion of the audience , he gives his reason , by remark- ing , that Spence , C " A deference " " A deference is to be paid to a ADD 1 SON . 59.
Page 73
... we have not heard 66 one word , fince the play began , of her being " at all out of harbour : and if we confider " the discourse with which she and Lucia begin " the " the Act , we have reason to believe that ADDISON . 73.
... we have not heard 66 one word , fince the play began , of her being " at all out of harbour : and if we confider " the discourse with which she and Lucia begin " the " the Act , we have reason to believe that ADDISON . 73.
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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