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... Homer and Virgil , the dis- criminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of ...
... Homer and Virgil , the dis- criminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of ...
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... Homer than other poets , because his positions are general and his representations natural , with very lit- tle dependence on local or temporary customs , on those changeable scenes of artificial life which , by mingling original with ...
... Homer than other poets , because his positions are general and his representations natural , with very lit- tle dependence on local or temporary customs , on those changeable scenes of artificial life which , by mingling original with ...
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... Homer , and part of the debt was now paid by his translator . Pope searched the pages of Dryden for happy combina- tions of heroic diction ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with ...
... Homer , and part of the debt was now paid by his translator . Pope searched the pages of Dryden for happy combina- tions of heroic diction ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with ...
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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