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... verses for reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
... verses for reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere does shine With ...
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... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq . , is to deliver to me , Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
... verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq . , is to deliver to me , Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther ...
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... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in the ...
... verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shown by his version of a small part of Virgil's Georgics , published in 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