Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
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... less distinct is less striking . He has altered the Stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new Stanza to that of his master , these ...
... less distinct is less striking . He has altered the Stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little resemblance he has formed his new Stanza to that of his master , these ...
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Samuel Johnson. not less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now ...
Samuel Johnson. not less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now ...
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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