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... struggled hard to comprise every book of the English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . ... with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can ...
... struggled hard to comprise every book of the English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . ... with so little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his numbers , that his metres can ...
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enabled him to form a party , and prejudice great numbers in his favour . But though this might be some gratification of his vanity , it afforded very little relief to his necessities ; and he was very frequently reduced to uncommon ...
enabled him to form a party , and prejudice great numbers in his favour . But though this might be some gratification of his vanity , it afforded very little relief to his necessities ; and he was very frequently reduced to uncommon ...
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The conscious shepherd , joyful at the sight , Eyes the blue vault , and numbers every light . The conscious swains rejoicing at the sight shepherds gazing with delight Eye the blue vault , and bless the vivid light , glorious useful So ...
The conscious shepherd , joyful at the sight , Eyes the blue vault , and numbers every light . The conscious swains rejoicing at the sight shepherds gazing with delight Eye the blue vault , and bless the vivid light , glorious useful So ...
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Contents
Introduction | 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 observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason received 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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