Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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... night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most pro- fligate ... nights which nature had enabled him to have employed in elevated speculations , useful studies , or pleasing con ...
... night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cellars , among the riot and filth of the meanest and most pro- fligate ... nights which nature had enabled him to have employed in elevated speculations , useful studies , or pleasing con ...
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... night , As when the moon in all her lustre bright , As when the moon , refulgent lamp of night , O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light ; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood , And o'er its golden ...
... night , As when the moon in all her lustre bright , As when the moon , refulgent lamp of night , O'er heaven's clear azure sheds her silver light ; pure spreads sacred As still in air the trembling lustre stood , And o'er its golden ...
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... Night concludes with this passage- Dark , though not blind , like thee , Meonides ; Or Milton , thee . Ah ! could I reach your strain ; Or his who made Meonides our own ! Man too he sung . Immortal man I sing . Oh had he prest his theme ...
... Night concludes with this passage- Dark , though not blind , like thee , Meonides ; Or Milton , thee . Ah ! could I reach your strain ; Or his who made Meonides our own ! Man too he sung . Immortal man I sing . Oh had he prest his theme ...
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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