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... mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais'd and punish'd for another's rhymes , His own deserve as great applause sometimes . His reputation in time ...
... mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais'd and punish'd for another's rhymes , His own deserve as great applause sometimes . His reputation in time ...
Page 248
... mentioning her ; but celebrates her not for her virtue , but her beauty , an excellence which none ever denied her ... mentioned with gratitude the humanity of one lady whose name I am now unable to recollect , and to whom therefore I ...
... mentioning her ; but celebrates her not for her virtue , but her beauty , an excellence which none ever denied her ... mentioned with gratitude the humanity of one lady whose name I am now unable to recollect , and to whom therefore I ...
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... mentioned " Pope's treatment of Savage . " This was supposed by Pope to be the consequence of a complaint made by Savage to Henley , and was therefore mentioned by him with much resentment . Mr. Savage returned a very solemn ...
... mentioned " Pope's treatment of Savage . " This was supposed by Pope to be the consequence of a complaint made by Savage to Henley , and was therefore mentioned by him with much resentment . Mr. Savage returned a very solemn ...
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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