Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 26
... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
Page 215
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently ...
... common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authoritative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocularity ; but he ap- parently ...
Page 348
... common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recol- lect in his poem of Autumn ; but was not considered by his master as superior to common boys , though in those early days he amused his patron ...
... common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recol- lect in his poem of Autumn ; but was not considered by his master as superior to common boys , though in those early days he amused his patron ...
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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