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Page 72
... Warburton , who has discovered in it such order and connection as was not perceived by Addison , nor , as it is said , intended by the author . Almost every poem , consisting of precepts , is so far arbitrary and immethodical , that ...
... Warburton , who has discovered in it such order and connection as was not perceived by Addison , nor , as it is said , intended by the author . Almost every poem , consisting of precepts , is so far arbitrary and immethodical , that ...
Page 115
... Warburton , to every man except him only who could write it . Those who like only when they like the author , and who are under the dominion of a name , condemned it , and those admired it who are willing to scatter praise at random ...
... Warburton , to every man except him only who could write it . Those who like only when they like the author , and who are under the dominion of a name , condemned it , and those admired it who are willing to scatter praise at random ...
Page 119
... Warburton was to change his opinion , and Pope was to find a defender in him who had contributed so much to the exaltation of his rival . The arrogance of Warburton excited against him every artifice of offence , and therefore it may be ...
... Warburton was to change his opinion , and Pope was to find a defender in him who had contributed so much to the exaltation of his rival . The arrogance of Warburton excited against him every artifice of offence , and therefore it may be ...
Page 133
... Warburton , whom he appears to have trusted and honoured in the highest degree . He laid aside his Epic Poem , perhaps without much loss to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridicu- lous fiction ...
... Warburton , whom he appears to have trusted and honoured in the highest degree . He laid aside his Epic Poem , perhaps without much loss to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridicu- lous fiction ...
Page 136
... dead ; and even then , if the copy was left to another , his fraud would be defeated , and if left to himself would be useless . Warburton therefore supposes , with great appearance of reason , 136 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... dead ; and even then , if the copy was left to another , his fraud would be defeated , and if left to himself would be useless . Warburton therefore supposes , with great appearance of reason , 136 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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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