Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
Page 215
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently ...
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently ...
Page 266
... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
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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 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