Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , false- hoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , false- hoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
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... told of which there never could have been proofs ; and little care appears to have been taken to tell that of which proofs , with little trouble , might have been pro- cured . ' EDWARD YOUNG was born at Upham , near Winchester , in June ...
... told of which there never could have been proofs ; and little care appears to have been taken to tell that of which proofs , with little trouble , might have been pro- cured . ' EDWARD YOUNG was born at Upham , near Winchester , in June ...
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... told by the author was not the case ; or Young , in his old age , bartered for a dedication an opinion entertained of his friend through all that part of life when he must have been best able to form opinions . ' From this account of ...
... told by the author was not the case ; or Young , in his old age , bartered for a dedication an opinion entertained of his friend through all that part of life when he must have been best able to form opinions . ' From this account of ...
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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