Lives of the English Poets1964 |
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... written in all the formalities of a legal process by the assist- ance , as is said , of Mr. Fortescue , afterwards Master of the Rolls . Before these Miscellanies is a Preface signed by Swift and Pope , but apparently written by Pope ...
... written in all the formalities of a legal process by the assist- ance , as is said , of Mr. Fortescue , afterwards Master of the Rolls . Before these Miscellanies is a Preface signed by Swift and Pope , but apparently written by Pope ...
Page 292
... written as exercises , and were never sent to any living mistress or friend . Pope's episto- lary excellence had an open field ; he had no Eng- lish rival , living or dead . Pope is seen in this collection as connected with the other ...
... written as exercises , and were never sent to any living mistress or friend . Pope's episto- lary excellence had an open field ; he had no Eng- lish rival , living or dead . Pope is seen in this collection as connected with the other ...
Page 338
... written twice over ; I gave him a clean tran- script , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . " His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their ...
... written twice over ; I gave him a clean tran- script , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . " His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their ...
Contents
The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt Cowley criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knew knowledge labour language learning lence letter likewise lines live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment Milton mind mother nature neglected ness never o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment retired Richard Savage satire Savage Savage's says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote