Lives of the English Poets: A Selection |
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Page 95
... necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the completeness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There ...
... necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the completeness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There ...
Page 136
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , what- ever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , what- ever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
Page 281
... necessary , to his own vindica- tion , to prosecute him in the King's Bench ; but as he did not find any ill effects from the accusation , having sufficiently cleared his innocence , he thought any further procedure would have the ...
... necessary , to his own vindica- tion , to prosecute him in the King's Bench ; but as he did not find any ill effects from the accusation , having sufficiently cleared his innocence , he thought any further procedure would have the ...
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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