Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. read with delight , and the inclusion of many who to us are mere names , the Lives make excellent reading , and the criticism throws a bright light on the taste and aims of men of culture in that literary milieu where ...
Samuel Johnson. read with delight , and the inclusion of many who to us are mere names , the Lives make excellent reading , and the criticism throws a bright light on the taste and aims of men of culture in that literary milieu where ...
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Samuel Johnson. 1608-1674 SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he ...
Samuel Johnson. 1608-1674 SENTIMENTS AND DICTION 105 existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or accompany the choirs of heaven . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he ...
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Samuel Johnson. studious of poetry , did not rectify his first opinion by consulting Waller's book . Clarendon observes , that he was introduced to the wits of the age by Dr. Morley ; but the writer of his life relates that he was ...
Samuel Johnson. studious of poetry , did not rectify his first opinion by consulting Waller's book . Clarendon observes , that he was introduced to the wits of the age by Dr. Morley ; but the writer of his life relates that he was ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration Æneid afterwards appears beauties better blank verse called Cato censure character Charles College compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras images imagination imitation John Dryden Johnson kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived Lord metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed occasion opinion Paradise Lost Parliament passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme Samuel Johnson satire says seems seldom Sempronius sent sentiments sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler Thomas Sprat thou thought told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil Waller Westminster Westminster Abbey Whig write written wrote