The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege ...
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege ...
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Samuel Johnson. from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the low delights of mean company . His Chloe proba- bly was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his ...
Samuel Johnson. from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the low delights of mean company . His Chloe proba- bly was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his ...
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... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every cou- plet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or con ...
... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every cou- plet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or con ...
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... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or ac ...
... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or ac ...
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... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; what- ever glosses he might use for the defence or pallia- tion of single passages , the general tenor and tend- ency of his ...
... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; what- ever glosses he might use for the defence or pallia- tion of single passages , the general tenor and tend- ency of his ...
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