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Page 199
... afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who , from that time , " conceived , " says Tickell , " an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau , than that he had an injudicious and peevish ...
... afterwards presented the collection to Boileau , who , from that time , " conceived , " says Tickell , " an opinion of the English genius for poetry . " Nothing is better known of Boileau , than that he had an injudicious and peevish ...
Page 211
... afterwards [ 18th June , 1714 ] an attempt was made to revive The Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and ...
... afterwards [ 18th June , 1714 ] an attempt was made to revive The Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and ...
Page 318
... afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and the smooth- ness of his numbers ...
... afterwards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and the smooth- ness of his numbers ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote