Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... elegance , and elegance sustained by truth . In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly consecutive , but the didac- tick and illustrative paragraphs are so happily mingled , that labour is relieved ...
... elegance , and elegance sustained by truth . In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly consecutive , but the didac- tick and illustrative paragraphs are so happily mingled , that labour is relieved ...
Page 320
... elegance so much increased , that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of borrowed passages , very few can be shewn which he has not embellished . There is a time when nations emerging from barbarity ...
... elegance so much increased , that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of borrowed passages , very few can be shewn which he has not embellished . There is a time when nations emerging from barbarity ...
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... elegance and its exactness . He does not confine himself to his author's train of stanzas ; for he saw that the ... elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process of events , neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the reader from ...
... elegance and its exactness . He does not confine himself to his author's train of stanzas ; for he saw that the ... elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process of events , neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the reader from ...
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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