Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 127
... reader admires and lays down , and for- gets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
... reader admires and lays down , and for- gets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look ...
Page 321
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader DRYDEN 321.
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader DRYDEN 321.
Page 440
... reader , if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him , that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? ' But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the Fourth Act , which may shew the 440 LIVES OF ...
... reader , if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him , that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? ' But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the Fourth Act , which may shew the 440 LIVES OF ...
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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