Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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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 ...
Page 91
... 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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... poets , was one 30 of his first encouragers . His regard was gained by the Pastorals , and from him Pope received the counsel by which he seems to have regulated his studies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him ...
... poets , was one 30 of his first encouragers . His regard was gained by the Pastorals , and from him Pope received the counsel by which he seems to have regulated his studies . Walsh advised him to correctness , which , as he told him ...
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... poet , because he was deeply conscious that his own Campaign , that Gazette in rhyme [ ante , ADDISON , 130 ] , contained no strokes of such genuine and sublime poetry as the conclusion before us . ' WARTON , Essay on Pope , i . 29 ...
... poet , because he was deeply conscious that his own Campaign , that Gazette in rhyme [ ante , ADDISON , 130 ] , contained no strokes of such genuine and sublime poetry as the conclusion before us . ' WARTON , Essay on Pope , i . 29 ...
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... poetry , ' wrote Pope , ' as well as Ogilby's , is too mean for criticism . ' Warton , iv . 403. In accounting for ' deviations from the Greek ' Pope said : - ' I was led into the greater part by Chapman and Hobbes . ' Post , POPE , 383 ...
... poetry , ' wrote Pope , ' as well as Ogilby's , is too mean for criticism . ' Warton , iv . 403. In accounting for ' deviations from the Greek ' Pope said : - ' I was led into the greater part by Chapman and Hobbes . ' Post , POPE , 383 ...
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