Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 92
... blank verse as the vehicle of Rural Sports . If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous , it is crippled prose ; and familiar images in laboured language have nothing to recommend them but absurd novelty , which , wanting the attractions ...
... blank verse as the vehicle of Rural Sports . If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous , it is crippled prose ; and familiar images in laboured language have nothing to recommend them but absurd novelty , which , wanting the attractions ...
Page 358
... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his dic- tion , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his dic- tion , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
Page 443
... blank verse ; in which it cannot be denied that there is copiousness and elegance of language , vigour of sentiment , and imagery well adapted to take posses- sion of the fancy . But it is blank verse . This he sold to Vaillant for one ...
... blank verse ; in which it cannot be denied that there is copiousness and elegance of language , vigour of sentiment , and imagery well adapted to take posses- sion of the fancy . But it is blank verse . This he sold to Vaillant for one ...
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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