The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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Page 232
... Absalom and Achitophel , " written against the faction which , by Lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , " written against the faction which , by Lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in ...
Page 233
... Absalom and Achitophel " had two answers , now both forgotten ; one called " Azaria and Hushai ; " the other , " Absalom Senior . " Of these hostile compositions , Dryden apparently imputes " Absalom Senior " to Settle , by quoting in ...
... Absalom and Achitophel " had two answers , now both forgotten ; one called " Azaria and Hushai ; " the other , " Absalom Senior . " Of these hostile compositions , Dryden apparently imputes " Absalom Senior " to Settle , by quoting in ...
Page 248
... Absalom and Achitophel , " which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons : " and charges him with borrowing the plan of his " Arthur " from the Preface to Juvenal , though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , " which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons : " and charges him with borrowing the plan of his " Arthur " from the Preface to Juvenal , though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to ...
Page 271
... Absalom and Achitophel " is a work so well known , that a particular criticism is superfluous . If it be considered as a poem political and controversial , it will be found to comprise all the excellences of which the subject is ...
... Absalom and Achitophel " is a work so well known , that a particular criticism is superfluous . If it be considered as a poem political and controversial , it will be found to comprise all the excellences of which the subject is ...
Page 272
... Absalom and Achitophel , " but upon a narrower plan , gives less pleasure , though it discovers equal abilities in the writer . The superstructure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a single character or incident cannot furnish as ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , " but upon a narrower plan , gives less pleasure , though it discovers equal abilities in the writer . The superstructure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a single character or incident cannot furnish as ...
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