Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... poet , it would be unjust to deny that he was an excellent versifyer ; his 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 ...
... poet , it would be unjust to deny that he was an excellent versifyer ; his 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 ...
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... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his ...
... poetry by the perusal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his ...
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... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman , when he was satisfied , would say , ' these are good rhymes 3 ...
... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by proposing subjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revisals ; after which the old gentleman , when he was satisfied , would say , ' these are good rhymes 3 ...
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... poetry . He tried all styles , and many subjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with panegyricks on all the princes of Europe ; and , as he confesses , ' thought himself the greatest genius that ever was 3. Self ...
... poetry . He tried all styles , and many subjects . He wrote a comedy , a tragedy , an epick poem , with panegyricks on all the princes of Europe ; and , as he confesses , ' thought himself the greatest genius that ever was 3. Self ...
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... Poetry at Oxford , he wrote : - ' I think it a condescension in one who practises the art of poetry so well to stoop to be a critic . ' lb. x . 226 . For ' cant ' see Boswell's Johnson , iv . 221 n . Johnson himself in The Rambler , No ...
... Poetry at Oxford , he wrote : - ' I think it a condescension in one who practises the art of poetry so well to stoop to be a critic . ' lb. x . 226 . For ' cant ' see Boswell's Johnson , iv . 221 n . Johnson himself in The Rambler , No ...
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