Lives of the English Poets: A Selection |
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Page 78
... sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand copies . The sale of ...
... sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 , that is , forty - one years , with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand copies . The sale of ...
Page 274
... sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this performance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller [ T. Worrall ] , who , though the success was so uncommon that five ...
... sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this performance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller [ T. Worrall ] , who , though the success was so uncommon that five ...
Page 288
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time to ...
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time 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