Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 7
... written in qua- trains - in imitation of Dryden's lines on Cromwell . 9 lb. p . 23. For Swift's letter to the Society see ib . xv . 242 . ΤΟ Malone , in his Dryden , i . 241 , 19 20 21 that this denunciation was the motive of SWIFT 7.
... written in qua- trains - in imitation of Dryden's lines on Cromwell . 9 lb. p . 23. For Swift's letter to the Society see ib . xv . 242 . ΤΟ Malone , in his Dryden , i . 241 , 19 20 21 that this denunciation was the motive of SWIFT 7.
Page 8
... lines on him and Bush , see Works , xiv . 59 . 7 Swift says a bribe was given . Craik , p . 516. Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery ' if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To ...
... lines on him and Bush , see Works , xiv . 59 . 7 Swift says a bribe was given . Craik , p . 516. Sheridan adds that Bush , with Berkeley's knowledge , told Swift that he could still have the Deanery ' if he would lay down £ 1,000 . To ...
Page 66
... lines and the like of Swift and his correspondents in hours of languor . ' COLERIDGE , Biog . Lit. i . 59 . I am for ... line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : - ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ...
... lines and the like of Swift and his correspondents in hours of languor . ' COLERIDGE , Biog . Lit. i . 59 . I am for ... line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : - ' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own ...
Page 76
... lines . Ozell , moreover , in his preface to the first volume , after stating that ' blank verse seems to be the only proper measure for an English translation of Homer , ' continues : - " The translator may end his line with long words ...
... lines . Ozell , moreover , in his preface to the first volume , after stating that ' blank verse seems to be the only proper measure for an English translation of Homer , ' continues : - " The translator may end his line with long words ...
Page 80
... lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable : in his Melancholy he makes breath rhyme to birth in one place , and to earth in another " . Those faults occur but seldom ...
... lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable : in his Melancholy he makes breath rhyme to birth in one place , and to earth in another " . Those faults occur but seldom ...
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