Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for everything can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of ...
... kind of poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for everything can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of ...
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... kind of writing , which , though prosaic in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and the Panther , the ...
... kind of writing , which , though prosaic in some parts , rises to high poetry in others , and neither towers to the skies , nor creeps along the ground . Of the same kind , or not far distant from it , is the Hind and the Panther , the ...
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... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remem- ber to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remem- ber to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
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