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... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
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... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
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Samuel Johnson. nature , by bombast or tumour , which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in quest of something unsuitable ; and by imbecility , which degrades nature ...
Samuel Johnson. nature , by bombast or tumour , which soars above nature , and enlarges images beyond their real bulk ; by affectation , which forsakes nature in quest of something unsuitable ; and by imbecility , which degrades nature ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat style supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote