Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 110
... endeavoured to detain him , from whom he broke , by cutting the maid on the head , but was after- wards taken in a court . There was some difference in their depositions ; one did not see Savage give the wound , another saw it given ...
... endeavoured to detain him , from whom he broke , by cutting the maid on the head , but was after- wards taken in a court . There was some difference in their depositions ; one did not see Savage give the wound , another saw it given ...
Page 117
... endeavoured to sooth them by sympathy and tenderness . But when his heart was not softened by the sight of misery , he was sometimes obstinate in his resentment , and did not quickly lose remembrance of an injury . He always continued ...
... endeavoured to sooth them by sympathy and tenderness . But when his heart was not softened by the sight of misery , he was sometimes obstinate in his resentment , and did not quickly lose remembrance of an injury . He always continued ...
Page 279
... endeavoured , it must be shewn to be possible . This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion , by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription on ...
... endeavoured , it must be shewn to be possible . This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion , by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription on ...
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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