Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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... pleasure or advantage ; why she should en- deavour to destroy him by a lie — a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable ...
... pleasure or advantage ; why she should en- deavour to destroy him by a lie — a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable ...
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... pleasure , he published The Wanderer , a moral poem , of which the design is comprised in these lines : I fly all public care , all venal strife , To try the still compar'd with active life ; To prove , by these the sons of men may owe ...
... pleasure , he published The Wanderer , a moral poem , of which the design is comprised in these lines : I fly all public care , all venal strife , To try the still compar'd with active life ; To prove , by these the sons of men may owe ...
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... pleasure of seeing once more a sister , who so truly deserved my esteem and love . But she is happy , while we must ... pleasures of my life . — But enough of this melan- choly though not unpleasing strain . ' I esteem you for your ...
... pleasure of seeing once more a sister , who so truly deserved my esteem and love . But she is happy , while we must ... pleasures of my life . — But enough of this melan- choly though not unpleasing strain . ' I esteem you for your ...
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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