Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Samuel Johnson. hence " are improper ; and the second line is taken from Dryden's Virgil . Of the next couplet , the first verse , being included in the second , is therefore useless ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife ...
Samuel Johnson. hence " are improper ; and the second line is taken from Dryden's Virgil . Of the next couplet , the first verse , being included in the second , is therefore useless ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife ...
Page 39
... line a horse , in the second a boat ; and the care of the poet is to keep his horse or his boat from singing . " " The next composition is the far - famed " Campaign , ' which Dr. Warton has termed a " Gazette in Rhyme , " with ...
... line a horse , in the second a boat ; and the care of the poet is to keep his horse or his boat from singing . " " The next composition is the far - famed " Campaign , ' which Dr. Warton has termed a " Gazette in Rhyme , " with ...
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... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... lines converging at a point , and is more excellent as the lines approach from greater distance : an exemplification may be considered as two parallel 40 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... lines on Marlborough are just and noble ; but the simile gives almost the same images a second time . But perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour and research , or ...
... lines on Marlborough are just and noble ; but the simile gives almost the same images a second time . But perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour and research , or ...
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... line , or a shining paragraph ; but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and shows more dexterity than strength ... lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a critic : a name ...
... line , or a shining paragraph ; but in the whole he is warm rather than fervid , and shows more dexterity than strength ... lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too smooth in Cato . Addison is now to be considered as a critic : a name ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote