Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... reputation , he published ( 1732 ) a very beautiful and splendid edition of his works , in which he omitted what he ... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The ...
... reputation , he published ( 1732 ) a very beautiful and splendid edition of his works , in which he omitted what he ... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The ...
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... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon him- self to attempt a species of writing , of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon him- self to attempt a species of writing , of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
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... reputation , and afterwards to keep it . Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at once memory and invention , and , with little intermediate use of the pen , form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and ...
... reputation , and afterwards to keep it . Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at once memory and invention , and , with little intermediate use of the pen , form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and ...
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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