Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 173
... writing any mendicant letters , he had too high a spirit , and determined only to write to some ministers of state , to try to regain his pension , ' He continued to complain of those that had sent him into the country , and objected to ...
... writing any mendicant letters , he had too high a spirit , and determined only to write to some ministers of state , to try to regain his pension , ' He continued to complain of those that had sent him into the country , and objected to ...
Page 299
... writing to the world there is less constraint ; the author is not confronted with his reader , and takes his chance of ... write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination ...
... writing to the world there is less constraint ; the author is not confronted with his reader , and takes his chance of ... write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination ...
Page 305
... write it ; an independent distich was preserved for an opportunity of insertion , and some little fragments have been found containing lines , or parts of lines , to be wrought upon at some other time . He was one of those few whose ...
... write it ; an independent distich was preserved for an opportunity of insertion , and some little fragments have been found containing lines , or parts of lines , to be wrought upon at some other time . He was one of those few whose ...
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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