Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgement in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce ...
... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgement in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce ...
Page 65
... thing a Newgate Pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan . This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera . He began on it ...
... thing a Newgate Pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan . This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera . He began on it ...
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... thing to write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination because ceremony or vanity requires some- thing to be written . Pope confesses his early Letters to be vitiated with ...
... thing to write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination because ceremony or vanity requires some- thing to be written . Pope confesses his early Letters to be vitiated with ...
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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