Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College ...
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Earl of Dorset . It began with the College ...
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... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal : but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal : but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
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... pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Henry Morley. delights the mind with change of language and succession of ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write and the philo- sopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Henry Morley. delights the mind with change of language and succession of ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write and the philo- sopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
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... , for contest was his delight . " He was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . " The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , for contest was his delight . " He was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . " The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of 34 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