Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... verses ; he considered him as a hero , and was accustomed to say , that he praised others in compliance with the ... verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the verse - men , Prior , among the rest , took care to shew his ...
... verses ; he considered him as a hero , and was accustomed to say , that he praised others in compliance with the ... verses . When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the verse - men , Prior , among the rest , took care to shew his ...
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... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
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... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
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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