Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 236
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now ex- hibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now ex- hibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
Page 318
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
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... poetical talents , or , at least , to the manner in which they had so frequently been exerted . " The next production of his Muse was The Sea - piece , in two odes . ' Young enjoys the credit of what is called an Extempore Epigram on ...
... poetical talents , or , at least , to the manner in which they had so frequently been exerted . " The next production of his Muse was The Sea - piece , in two odes . ' Young enjoys the credit of what is called an Extempore Epigram on ...
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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