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... Dunciad , which were addressed by Mr. Savage to the Earl of Middlesex , in a Dedication which he was prevailed upon to sign , though he did not write it , and in which there are some positions that the true author would per- haps not ...
... Dunciad , which were addressed by Mr. Savage to the Earl of Middlesex , in a Dedication which he was prevailed upon to sign , though he did not write it , and in which there are some positions that the true author would per- haps not ...
Page 289
... Dunciad ; on the other side the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it . What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ? There was no stopping a torrent with a finger ; so out it came ...
... Dunciad ; on the other side the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it . What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ? There was no stopping a torrent with a finger ; so out it came ...
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... Dunciad , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of op- posite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has ...
... Dunciad , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of op- posite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides beauties Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt COWLEY criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knowledge labour language learning letter likewise lines literary live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment mind mother nature neglected never numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment Richard Savage satire Savage says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza subscription sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth verses Virgil virtue write written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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