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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Page 156
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
Page 293
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
Page 391
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
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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