Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 151
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time to ...
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he returned in a short time to ...
Page 165
... sufficient for him , being now deter- mined to commence a rigid oeconomist , and to live according to the exactest rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man , who , when he knew his income ...
... sufficient for him , being now deter- mined to commence a rigid oeconomist , and to live according to the exactest rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man , who , when he knew his income ...
Page 367
... sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well . His poems on other subjects seldom ... sufficiently correspondent . He is particularly unhappy in coining names expressive of characters . His lines are ...
... sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well . His poems on other subjects seldom ... sufficiently correspondent . He is particularly unhappy in coining names expressive of characters . His lines are ...
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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