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... Sir Robert Walpole , for which he was rewarded by him with twenty guineas , a sum not very large , if either the excellence of the performance , or the affluence of the patron , be considered ; but greater than he afterwards obtained ...
... Sir Robert Walpole , for which he was rewarded by him with twenty guineas , a sum not very large , if either the excellence of the performance , or the affluence of the patron , be considered ; but greater than he afterwards obtained ...
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... Sir Robert Walpole in his favour with so much earnestness , that they obtained a promise of the next place that should be- come vacant , not exceeding 2001. a year . This promise was made with an uncommon declaration , " that it was not ...
... Sir Robert Walpole in his favour with so much earnestness , that they obtained a promise of the next place that should be- come vacant , not exceeding 2001. a year . This promise was made with an uncommon declaration , " that it was not ...
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... Sir Robert Walpole , who valued himself upon keeping his promise to others , broke it to him with- out regret ; and the bounty of the Queen was , after her death , withdrawn from him , and from him only . Such were his misfortunes ...
... Sir Robert Walpole , who valued himself upon keeping his promise to others , broke it to him with- out regret ; and the bounty of the Queen was , after her death , withdrawn from him , and from him only . Such were his misfortunes ...
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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