Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... obtained a licence for its admission into publick worship ; but no admission has it yet obtained , nor has it any right to come where Brady and Tate have got possession . Blackmore's name must be added to those of many others , who , by ...
... obtained a licence for its admission into publick worship ; but no admission has it yet obtained , nor has it any right to come where Brady and Tate have got possession . Blackmore's name must be added to those of many others , who , by ...
Page 187
... obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ...
... obtained the prebend of Kilroot in Connor , of about a hundred pounds a year . But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary , that he invited him back , with a promise to procure him English preferment , in ...
Page 395
... obtained ; and the publick will perhaps wish that I had solicited and obtained more such favours from him . ' DEAR SIR , ' In consequence of our different conversations about authentick materials for the Life of Young , I send you the ...
... obtained ; and the publick will perhaps wish that I had solicited and obtained more such favours from him . ' DEAR SIR , ' In consequence of our different conversations about authentick materials for the Life of Young , I send you the ...
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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