Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... verses for reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
... verses for reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
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... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq . , is to deliver to me , Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq . , is to deliver to me , Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
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... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in the ...
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in the ...
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