The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 305
... Absalom and Achitophel , " written against the faction which , by Lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was ap- plied to the support of public principles , and in ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , " written against the faction which , by Lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was ap- plied to the support of public principles , and in ...
Page 306
... Absalom and Achitophel " had two answers , now both forgotten ; one called " Aza- ria and Hushai ; " the other , " Absalom Senior . " Of these hostile compositions , Dryden apparently imputes " Absalom Senior " to Settle , by quoting in ...
... Absalom and Achitophel " had two answers , now both forgotten ; one called " Aza- ria and Hushai ; " the other , " Absalom Senior . " Of these hostile compositions , Dryden apparently imputes " Absalom Senior " to Settle , by quoting in ...
Page 307
... Absalom and Achitophel ; " and was , perhaps , for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glo- ries of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved ...
... Absalom and Achitophel ; " and was , perhaps , for his factious audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to describe the glo- ries of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved ...
Page 327
... Absalom and Achitophel , " which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons : " and charges him with borrowing the plan of his " Arthur " from the Preface to Juvenal , " though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to ...
... Absalom and Achitophel , " which " he thinks a little hard upon his fanatic patrons : " and charges him with borrowing the plan of his " Arthur " from the Preface to Juvenal , " though he had , " says he , " the baseness not to ...
Page 357
... Absalom and Achitophel " is a work so well known , that a particular criticism is superfluous . If it be considered as a poem political and contro- versial , it will be found to comprise all the excel- lences of which the subject is ...
... Absalom and Achitophel " is a work so well known , that a particular criticism is superfluous . If it be considered as a poem political and contro- versial , it will be found to comprise all the excel- lences of which the subject is ...
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