Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters . I have been told ...
... poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters . I have been told ...
Page 328
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
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... poet is proportionate to his labour . The same observation may be extended to all works of imagination , which are often influenced by causes wholly out of the performer's power , by hints of which he perceives not the origin , by ...
... poet is proportionate to his labour . The same observation may be extended to all works of imagination , which are often influenced by causes wholly out of the performer's power , by hints of which he perceives not the origin , by ...
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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