Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at his house ? He told them that either the Earl of Oxford or the Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember which , an answer which perplexed them , because ...
... present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at his house ? He told them that either the Earl of Oxford or the Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember which , an answer which perplexed them , because ...
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... present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by Prior ; his numbers were not smooth nor neat . Prior excelled him in versification ; but he was , like Horace , inventore minor ; he had not ...
... present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by Prior ; his numbers were not smooth nor neat . Prior excelled him in versification ; but he was , like Horace , inventore minor ; he had not ...
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... present of a gold chain and medal . The malignity of the wits attributed his knighthood to his new poem , but King William was not very studious of poetry ; and Blackmore perhaps had other merit , for he says in his dedication to ...
... present of a gold chain and medal . The malignity of the wits attributed his knighthood to his new poem , but King William was not very studious of poetry ; and Blackmore perhaps had other merit , for he says in his dedication to ...
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... present occasion . Jacob says " it is corrected and revised from another impression , " but the labour of revision was thrown away . From this time he turned some of his thoughts to the celebration of living characters , and wrote a ...
... present occasion . Jacob says " it is corrected and revised from another impression , " but the labour of revision was thrown away . From this time he turned some of his thoughts to the celebration of living characters , and wrote a ...
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... presents to regain costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor's chain ; Suppliant the venerable father stands , Apollo's awful ensigns graced his hands . By these he begs , and , lowly bending down The golden sceptre and ...
... presents to regain costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor's chain ; Suppliant the venerable father stands , Apollo's awful ensigns graced his hands . By these he begs , and , lowly bending down The golden sceptre and ...
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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