Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 125
... satire ought to be recanted , for the sake of him whose reputation may be injured , false praise ought likewise to be obviated , lest the distinction between vice and virtue should be lost , lest a bad man should be trusted upon the ...
... satire ought to be recanted , for the sake of him whose reputation may be injured , false praise ought likewise to be obviated , lest the distinction between vice and virtue should be lost , lest a bad man should be trusted upon the ...
Page 341
... satire upon Sporus . Of the two poems which derived their names from the year , and which are called the Epilogue to the Satires , it was very justly remarked by Savage , that the second was in the whole more strongly conceived , and ...
... satire upon Sporus . Of the two poems which derived their names from the year , and which are called the Epilogue to the Satires , it was very justly remarked by Savage , that the second was in the whole more strongly conceived , and ...
Page 427
... Satire , On Women , was not published till 1727 ; and the sixth not till 1728 . ' To these Poems , when , in 1728 ... Satirist at the grave age of almost fifty , who , many years earlier in life , wrote the Last Day . After all , Swift ...
... Satire , On Women , was not published till 1727 ; and the sixth not till 1728 . ' To these Poems , when , in 1728 ... Satirist at the grave age of almost fifty , who , many years earlier in life , wrote the Last Day . After all , Swift ...
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