Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
... common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
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... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
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... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
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action Addison admiration afterwards appears beauties believe better called character common compositions considered continued Cowley criticism death delight desire Dryden Earl easily effect elegance English equal excellence expected expression favour formed friends genius give given hand hope images imagination imitation Italy kind King knowledge known labour language Latin learning least less lines lived lord lost manner means mention Milton mind nature never numbers observed occasion once opinion original passed performance perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise present probably produced publick published reader reason received relates remarks rhyme says seems sent sentiments shew sometimes supply supposed tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation true verses Waller whole write written wrote