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Page 317
... Pope , curosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber no- body inquired , but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity . He should therefore have suffered the pamphlet to flutter and die , without ...
... Pope , curosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber no- body inquired , but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity . He should therefore have suffered the pamphlet to flutter and die , without ...
Page 344
... Pope is always smooth , uniform , and gentle . Dryden's page is a natural field , rising into inequalities , and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn , shaven by the scythe , and levelled ...
... Pope is always smooth , uniform , and gentle . Dryden's page is a natural field , rising into inequalities , and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn , shaven by the scythe , and levelled ...
Page 345
... Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said , that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dry- den's ... Pope's the heat is more regular and constant . Dryden often surpasses expectation , and Pope never falls below it ...
... Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said , that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dry- den's ... Pope's the heat is more regular and constant . Dryden often surpasses expectation , and Pope never falls below it ...
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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