Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 296
... sometimes leave Lord Oxford silently , no one could tell why , and was to be courted back by more letters and messages than the footmen were willing to carry . The table was indeed infested by Lady Mary Wortley , who was the friend of ...
... sometimes leave Lord Oxford silently , no one could tell why , and was to be courted back by more letters and messages than the footmen were willing to carry . The table was indeed infested by Lady Mary Wortley , who was the friend of ...
Page 300
... sometimes with gloomy indignation , as on monsters more worthy of hatred than of pity . These were dispositions ... sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated ...
... sometimes with gloomy indignation , as on monsters more worthy of hatred than of pity . These were dispositions ... sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated ...
Page 438
... sometimes happily , as in his parallel of Quicksilver with Pleasure , which I have heard repeated with approbation by a Lady , of whose praise he would have been justly proud , and which is very ingenious , very subtle , and almost ...
... sometimes happily , as in his parallel of Quicksilver with Pleasure , which I have heard repeated with approbation by a Lady , of whose praise he would have been justly proud , and which is very ingenious , very subtle , and almost ...
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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