Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... shewn in Love for Love . His Art of Pleasing is founded on a vulgar but perhaps impracticable princi- ple , and the staleness of the sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry ...
... shewn in Love for Love . His Art of Pleasing is founded on a vulgar but perhaps impracticable princi- ple , and the staleness of the sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . This tissue of poetry ...
Page 227
... shew , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily imagines that he ... shewn to the Poets and Criticks of that time ; as they well deserved , they were read with admiration , and many ...
... shew , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself , easily imagines that he ... shewn to the Poets and Criticks of that time ; as they well deserved , they were read with admiration , and many ...
Page 310
... shew his literature than his wit . It is surely sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the ... shewn must by necessity be arbitrary , and more is not to be expected from the last part than from the first . The ...
... shew his literature than his wit . It is surely sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the ... shewn must by necessity be arbitrary , and more is not to be expected from the last part than from the first . 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