Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 122
... remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con- versation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first ...
... remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con- versation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first ...
Page 228
... remarks on ancient or modern writers are not always to be trusted . His parallel of the versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly censured by Sewel . His com- parison of the first line of Virgil with the first of ...
... remarks on ancient or modern writers are not always to be trusted . His parallel of the versification of Ovid with that of Claudian has been very justly censured by Sewel . His com- parison of the first line of Virgil with the first of ...
Page 299
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calculator will find that he despatched seven a ...
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calculator will find that he despatched seven a ...
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