Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... attention , and the wit so exuberant that it o'er - informs its tenement . Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the lord Halifax ...
... attention , and the wit so exuberant that it o'er - informs its tenement . Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the lord Halifax ...
Page 217
... attention to all those that preached in his cathedral , in order to their amendment in pronunciation and style ; as also his remarkable atten- tion to the interest of his successors , preferably to his own present emoluments ...
... attention to all those that preached in his cathedral , in order to their amendment in pronunciation and style ; as also his remarkable atten- tion to the interest of his successors , preferably to his own present emoluments ...
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... attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect ; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation , and in others with gentle tenderness ; nor has Pope produced any poem in which the ...
... attention by the illaudable singularity of treating suicide with respect ; and they must be allowed to be written in some parts with vigorous animation , and in others with gentle tenderness ; nor has Pope produced any poem in which the ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young