Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 27
Page 139
... declared several times before his death that he received his wound from Savage ; nor did Savage at his trial deny the fact , but endeavoured partly to extenuate it , by urging the suddenness of the whole action , and the impossibility ...
... declared several times before his death that he received his wound from Savage ; nor did Savage at his trial deny the fact , but endeavoured partly to extenuate it , by urging the suddenness of the whole action , and the impossibility ...
Page 161
... declared that Lord Tyrconnel quarrelled with him because he would not subtract from his own luxury and extravagance what he had promised to allow him , and that his resent- ment was only a plea for the violation of his promise . He ...
... declared that Lord Tyrconnel quarrelled with him because he would not subtract from his own luxury and extravagance what he had promised to allow him , and that his resent- ment was only a plea for the violation of his promise . He ...
Page 186
... declared that the short time in which it was spent sufficiently confuted his own account of his conduct . His ... declaration , " that it was not the promise of a minister to a pe- titioner , but of a friend to his friend . " Mr. Savage ...
... declared that the short time in which it was spent sufficiently confuted his own account of his conduct . His ... declaration , " that it was not the promise of a minister to a pe- titioner , but of a friend to his friend . " Mr. Savage ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |