Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 151
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time to ...
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time to ...
Page 165
... sufficient for him , being now deter- mined to commence a rigid oeconomist , and to live according to the exactest rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man , who , when he knew his income ...
... sufficient for him , being now deter- mined to commence a rigid oeconomist , and to live according to the exactest rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man , who , when he knew his income ...
Page 310
... sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the poems of antiquity with judicious selection , but to have obtained sufficient power of language , and skill in metre , to exhibit a series of versification , which had ...
... sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the poems of antiquity with judicious selection , but to have obtained sufficient power of language , and skill in metre , to exhibit a series of versification , which had ...
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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