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... war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore , leisure to make or to polish ... Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On this occasion he had ...
... war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore , leisure to make or to polish ... Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On this occasion he had ...
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... Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of ...
... Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original passages performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation resentment ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CONGREVE write written wrote