Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 133
... faults must make great numbers less sensible of his distress ; many , who had only an opportunity to hear one part , made no scruple to propagate the account which they received ; many assisted their circulation from malice or revenge ...
... faults must make great numbers less sensible of his distress ; many , who had only an opportunity to hear one part , made no scruple to propagate the account which they received ; many assisted their circulation from malice or revenge ...
Page 137
... faults , will hear of the miseries which they brought upon him , and which would deserve less pity , had not his condition been such as made his faults par- donable . He may be considered as a child exposed to all the temptations of ...
... faults , will hear of the miseries which they brought upon him , and which would deserve less pity , had not his condition been such as made his faults par- donable . He may be considered as a child exposed to all the temptations of ...
Page 213
... faults . What the faults were , Lord Orrery , from whom I heard the story , had not been attentive enough to discover . My number may perhaps not be exact . In his oeconomy he practised a peculiar and offensive parsimony , without ...
... faults . What the faults were , Lord Orrery , from whom I heard the story , had not been attentive enough to discover . My number may perhaps not be exact . In his oeconomy he practised a peculiar and offensive parsimony , without ...
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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