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Page 117
... performance the second , among the produc- tions of the human mind . By the general consent of criticks , the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly ...
... performance the second , among the produc- tions of the human mind . By the general consent of criticks , the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly ...
Page 143
... performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that merely makes a book from books may be useful , but can scarcely be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide beside him unseen or unobserved . He had ...
... performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that merely makes a book from books may be useful , but can scarcely be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide beside him unseen or unobserved . He had ...
Page 238
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote