Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 135
... poetical reputation , was sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this performance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller , who , though the success was so un- common ...
... poetical reputation , was sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this performance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller , who , though the success was so un- common ...
Page 236
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now ex- hibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now ex- hibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
Page 460
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be ...
... poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales to be ...
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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