Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 178
... remarkable for his weaknesses and abilities . He was of a middle stature , of a thin habit of body , a long visage , coarse features , and melancholy aspect ; of a grave and manly deportment , a solemn dignity of mien ; but which , upon ...
... remarkable for his weaknesses and abilities . He was of a middle stature , of a thin habit of body , a long visage , coarse features , and melancholy aspect ; of a grave and manly deportment , a solemn dignity of mien ; but which , upon ...
Page 296
... remarkable , that , so near his time , so much should be known of what he has written , and so little of what he has said : traditional memory retains no sallies of raillery , nor sentences of observation ; nothing either pointed or ...
... remarkable , that , so near his time , so much should be known of what he has written , and so little of what he has said : traditional memory retains no sallies of raillery , nor sentences of observation ; nothing either pointed or ...
Page 410
... remarkable for just rhymes ; but , altogether , they will make rather a curious page in the life of Young . Prophetic schemes , And golden dreams , May I , unsanguine , cast away ! Have what I have , And live , not leave , Enamoured of ...
... remarkable for just rhymes ; but , altogether , they will make rather a curious page in the life of Young . Prophetic schemes , And golden dreams , May I , unsanguine , cast away ! Have what I have , And live , not leave , Enamoured of ...
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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