Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... Passage Lives of Addison , Savage , and Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE ...
... Passage Lives of Addison , Savage , and Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE ...
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... passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English ...
... passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might have been impressed with his expectation by Swift's " Proposal for Ascertaining the English ...
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... passages to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write and the philo- sopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry ...
... passages to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write and the philo- sopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry ...
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... passages , we are rather amused with noise and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This . however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still ...
... passages , we are rather amused with noise and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This . however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still ...
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... passages , which , while they stood single , had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror . The wise and the pious caught the alarm , and the nation wondered why it had so long ...
... passages , which , while they stood single , had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror . The wise and the pious caught the alarm , and the nation wondered why it had so long ...
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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