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... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous : he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
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... diction . But the tale is not skilfully told ; it is not easy to discover the character of either the Lady or her Guardian . History relates that she was about to disparage herself by a marriage with an inferior ; Pope praises her for ...
... diction . But the tale is not skilfully told ; it is not easy to discover the character of either the Lady or her Guardian . History relates that she was about to disparage herself by a marriage with an inferior ; Pope praises her for ...
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... diction ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with so much diligence and art that he has left in his Homer a treasure of poetical elegances to posterity . His version may be said to ...
... diction ; but it will not be denied that he added much to what he found . He cultivated our language with so much diligence and art that he has left in his Homer a treasure of poetical elegances to posterity . His version may be said to ...
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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