The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 15
... expected succeeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much ...
... expected succeeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much ...
Page 32
... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censures , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censures , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
Page 39
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between several virtues and ...
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between several virtues and ...
Page 61
... expected to pro- duce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young Author a rapture of ...
... expected to pro- duce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young Author a rapture of ...
Page 67
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The Mask of " Peleus and Thetis " has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and ...
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The Mask of " Peleus and Thetis " has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and ...
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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