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... satire , exceeds any part of the former . Personal resentment , though no laudable motive to satire , can add great force to general principles . Self - love is a busy prompter . The Medal , written upon the same principles with Absalom ...
... satire , exceeds any part of the former . Personal resentment , though no laudable motive to satire , can add great force to general principles . Self - love is a busy prompter . The Medal , written upon the same principles with Absalom ...
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Samuel Johnson. tated , except Creech , who undertook the thirteenth satire . It is therefore , perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some ...
Samuel Johnson. tated , except Creech , who undertook the thirteenth satire . It is therefore , perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some ...
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... satire would countervail the love of power or of money ; he pleased himself with being important and formidable , and gratified sometimes his pride , and sometimes his resentment ; till at last he began to think he should be more safe ...
... satire would countervail the love of power or of money ; he pleased himself with being important and formidable , and gratified sometimes his pride , and sometimes his resentment ; till at last he began to think he should be more safe ...
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
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| 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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