Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 64
... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did no- thing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did no- thing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
Page 296
... Lady Mary Wortley , who was the friend of Lady Oxford , and who , knowing his peevishness , could by no intreaties be restrained from contradicting him , till their disputes were sharpened to such asperity , that one or the other ...
... Lady Mary Wortley , who was the friend of Lady Oxford , and who , knowing his peevishness , could by no intreaties be restrained from contradicting him , till their disputes were sharpened to such asperity , that one or the other ...
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... Lady have drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect ; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation , and in others with gentle tenderness ; nor has Pope produced ...
... Lady have drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect ; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation , and in others with gentle tenderness ; nor has Pope produced ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young