Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... 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 exercise , and ended with the ...
... 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 exercise , and ended with the ...
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... pretty lie to Louis XIV . , continued it after- wards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . [ Congreve was baptised at Bardsey CONGREVE. ...
... pretty lie to Louis XIV . , continued it after- wards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . [ Congreve was baptised at Bardsey CONGREVE. ...
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... honour of her presence ; and when she died soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral , a composi- tion in which all is unnatural and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
... honour of her presence ; and when she died soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral , a composi- tion in which all is unnatural and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
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... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies ...
... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies ...
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... honour , that to have been once a schoolmaster is the only reproach which all the per- spicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
... honour , that to have been once a schoolmaster is the only reproach which all the per- spicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
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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