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Page 47
... blank verse ; neither did Pope claim it , but com- mitted it to Broome . How the two associates performed their parts is well known to the readers of poetry , who have never been able to distinguish their books from those of Pope . In ...
... blank verse ; neither did Pope claim it , but com- mitted it to Broome . How the two associates performed their parts is well known to the readers of poetry , who have never been able to distinguish their books from those of Pope . In ...
Page 50
... blank verse ; and the paraphrast has deserted his original , by admitting images not Asiatic , at least not Ju- daical ; Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white - Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing ...
... blank verse ; and the paraphrast has deserted his original , by admitting images not Asiatic , at least not Ju- daical ; Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white - Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing ...
Page 80
... blank verse , of which however his two first lines gave a bad specimen . To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to ...
... blank verse , of which however his two first lines gave a bad specimen . To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requisite to ...
Page 255
... blank verse , which Pope had adopted with great imprudence , and , I think , without due consideration of the nature of our language . The sketch is , at least in part , preserved by Ruffhead ; by which it appears , that Pope was ...
... blank verse , which Pope had adopted with great imprudence , and , I think , without due consideration of the nature of our language . The sketch is , at least in part , preserved by Ruffhead ; by which it appears , that Pope was ...
Page 314
... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
... blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton , or of any other poet , than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley . His numbers , his pauses , his diction , are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young