Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. panied , and by which it is recommended to many readers , though they were undoubtedly written to swell the volumes , ought not to pass without praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal ...
Samuel Johnson. panied , and by which it is recommended to many readers , though they were undoubtedly written to swell the volumes , ought not to pass without praise : commentaries which attract the reader by the pleasure of perusal ...
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... reader . At last , without any further contention with his modesty , or any awe of the name of Dryden , he gave us a complete English Eneid , which I am sorry not to see joined in the late publication with his other poems . It would ...
... reader . At last , without any further contention with his modesty , or any awe of the name of Dryden , he gave us a complete English Eneid , which I am sorry not to see joined in the late publication with his other poems . It would ...
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... reader in our native commodity , by interspersing rural imagery , and incidental digressions , by cloathing small images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delusion , the meanness naturally adhering , and the irreverence ...
... reader in our native commodity , by interspersing rural imagery , and incidental digressions , by cloathing small images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delusion , the meanness naturally adhering , and the irreverence ...
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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