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Page 9
... pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque PRIOR . 9.
... pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque PRIOR . 9.
Page 15
... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
Page 49
... epitaph , of which he borrowed the two first lines from Crashaw . Fenton was tall and bulky , inclined to corpulence , which he did not lessen by much exercise ; for he was very sluggish and sedentary , rose late , and when he had risen ...
... epitaph , of which he borrowed the two first lines from Crashaw . Fenton was tall and bulky , inclined to corpulence , which he did not lessen by much exercise ; for he was very sluggish and sedentary , rose late , and when he had risen ...
Page 51
... Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words : as for Flourish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing for writing sake , and wd rather shew their own Fine Parts , yn Report ...
... Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words : as for Flourish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing for writing sake , and wd rather shew their own Fine Parts , yn Report ...
Page 291
... Epitaphs . To define an epitaph is useless ; every one knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writing , but may be composed in verse or prose . It is indeed commonly ...
... Epitaphs . To define an epitaph is useless ; every one knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writing , but may be composed in verse or prose . It is indeed commonly ...
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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