Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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... death .- ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death .- ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
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... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day , he has formed a happy combination of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day , he has formed a happy combination of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
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... Death- You are so witty , profligate , and thin , At once we think thee Milton , Death , and Sin . From the following passage in the poetical Dedication of his Sea - piece to Voltaire , it seems that his extemporaneous reproof , if it ...
... Death- You are so witty , profligate , and thin , At once we think thee Milton , Death , and Sin . From the following passage in the poetical Dedication of his Sea - piece to Voltaire , it seems that his extemporaneous reproof , if it ...
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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