Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 187
... poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters . I have been told ...
... poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters . I have been told ...
Page 273
... poet and his friend Expatiate freely o'er this scene of man , A mighty maze of walks without a plan . For which he wrote afterwards , A mighty maze , but not without a plan : for , if there were no plan , it was in vain to describe or ...
... poet and his friend Expatiate freely o'er this scene of man , A mighty maze of walks without a plan . For which he wrote afterwards , A mighty maze , but not without a plan : for , if there were no plan , it was in vain to describe or ...
Page 333
... poet , whose verses wander over the earth , and leave their subject behind them , and who is forced , like an unskilful painter , to make his purpose known by adventitious help ? This epitaph is wholly without elevation , and contains ...
... poet , whose verses wander over the earth , and leave their subject behind them , and who is forced , like an unskilful painter , to make his purpose known by adventitious help ? This epitaph is wholly without elevation , and contains ...
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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