Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... Secretary of State in the Earl of Jersey's office , a post which he did not retain long , because Jersey was removed , but he was soon made Commissioner of Trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest PRIOR . 9.
... Secretary of State in the Earl of Jersey's office , a post which he did not retain long , because Jersey was removed , but he was soon made Commissioner of Trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest PRIOR . 9.
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... 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 " Nutbrown Maid . " The Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
... 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 " Nutbrown Maid . " The Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
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... soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him ...
... soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from the mention made of him ...
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... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
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... soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the Privy Council , of which ...
... soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the Privy Council , of which ...
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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