Lives of the English Poets: A Selection |
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... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminating by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from a ...
... poetical simile is the discovery of likeness between two actions , in their general nature dissimilar , or of causes terminating by different operations in some resemblance of effect . But the mention of another like consequence from a ...
Page 226
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
... poetical justice , which is always one of his favourite principles . " Tis certainly the duty of every tragic poet , by an exact distribution of a poetical justice , to imitate the Divine dis- pensation and to inculcate a particular ...
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... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad , a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad , a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
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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