Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 45
... equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it to observe among the least ...
... equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it to observe among the least ...
Page 83
... equal skill , but not equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were negotiating with France , Tickell published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the ...
... equal skill , but not equal happiness . When the ministers of queen Anne were negotiating with France , Tickell published The Prospect of Peace , a poem , of which the tendency was to reclaim the nation from the pride of conquest to the ...
Page 151
... equal patience ; but to which it must like- wise be confessed , that few would have been exposed who received punctually fifty pounds a year ; a salary which , though by no means equal to the demands of vanity and luxury , is yet found ...
... equal patience ; but to which it must like- wise be confessed , that few would have been exposed who received punctually fifty pounds a year ; a salary which , though by no means equal to the demands of vanity and luxury , is yet found ...
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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