Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 83
... equal skill , but not equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were negotiating with France , Tickell published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the ...
... equal skill , but not equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were negotiating with France , Tickell published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the ...
Page 153
... equal difficulty , called up to dinner ; it was therefore impossible to pay him any distinction without the entire subversion of all oeconomy , a kind of establishment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow ...
... equal difficulty , called up to dinner ; it was therefore impossible to pay him any distinction without the entire subversion of all oeconomy , a kind of establishment which , wherever he went , he always appeared ambitious to overthrow ...
Page 233
... equal propriety , have placed Prudence and Justice before it , since without Prudence Fortitude is mad ; without Justice , it is mis- chievous . As the end of method is perspicuity , that series is sufficiently regular that avoids ...
... equal propriety , have placed Prudence and Justice before it , since without Prudence Fortitude is mad ; without Justice , it is mis- chievous . As the end of method is perspicuity , that series is sufficiently regular that avoids ...
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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