Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Tatler - The Spectator The Whig Examiner Origin of Newspapers - Cato , a Tragedy - The Drummer , å Comedy - Made Secretary to the Regency - The Freeholder - Made Secre- tary of State - Marries the Countess of Warwick - Resigns his ...
... Tatler - The Spectator The Whig Examiner Origin of Newspapers - Cato , a Tragedy - The Drummer , å Comedy - Made Secretary to the Regency - The Freeholder - Made Secre- tary of State - Marries the Countess of Warwick - Resigns his ...
Page 334
... Tatler and Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect or the impertinence of civility , to show when to ...
... Tatler and Spectator , if the writers for the theatre are excepted , England had no masters of common life . No writers had yet undertaken to reform either the savageness of neglect or the impertinence of civility , to show when to ...
Page 335
... Tatler and Spectator had the same tendency ; they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps without any distinct termination of its views , were ...
... Tatler and Spectator had the same tendency ; they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plausible declarations , and each perhaps without any distinct termination of its views , were ...
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