Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be ...
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... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
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... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level , along solid ground , without asperities , without obstruction . This easy and safe conveyance ...
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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