The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... expected ; but he finds . another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
... expected ; but he finds . another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
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... expected from the common tenor of his prose : — " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between se- veral virtues ...
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : — " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between se- veral virtues ...
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... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of Peleus and Thetis has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and the ...
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of Peleus and Thetis has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and the ...
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... expected on the stage ; and he was so much ashamed of having been reduced to appear as a player , that he always blotted out his name from the list , when a copy of his tragedy was to be shewn to his friends . In the publication of his ...
... expected on the stage ; and he was so much ashamed of having been reduced to appear as a player , that he always blotted out his name from the list , when a copy of his tragedy was to be shewn to his friends . In the publication of his ...
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... expected that he should have gained considerable advantage ; nor can it , without some degree of indignation and concern , be told , that he sold the copy for ten guineas , of which he afterwards re- turned two , that the last two ...
... expected that he should have gained considerable advantage ; nor can it , without some degree of indignation and concern , be told , that he sold the copy for ten guineas , of which he afterwards re- turned two , that the last two ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence father faults favour Fenton friends friendship gave genius honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed once Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue write written wrote Young