Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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Page 86
... Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , with others ; Faith . Hope . Conscience . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses ...
... Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , with others ; Faith . Hope . Conscience . Labour , Sickness , Discontent , Mutes . Ignorance , Fear , Death ; Charity . Faith . Hope . Charity . Paradise Lost . The Persons . Moses ...
Page 144
... labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is beyond the reach and power of the most active and comprehensive mind . I am informed by Mr. Thyer of Manchester , the ...
... labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is beyond the reach and power of the most active and comprehensive mind . I am informed by Mr. Thyer of Manchester , the ...
Page 289
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote