The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intri ...
... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intri ...
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... sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and , with all those powers , exalted and invigorated by ...
... sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and , with all those powers , exalted and invigorated by ...
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... sufficient to say , that it is an occasional pastoral , which implies something neither natural nor ar- tificial , neither comic nor serious . The next ode is irregular , and therefore defective . As the sentiments are pious , they ...
... sufficient to say , that it is an occasional pastoral , which implies something neither natural nor ar- tificial , neither comic nor serious . The next ode is irregular , and therefore defective . As the sentiments are pious , they ...
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... sufficient , Contentment . As to any Papers left behind him , I dare say they can be but few ; for this reason , he never wrote out of Vanity , or thought much of the Applause of men . I know an in- stance where he did his utmost to ...
... sufficient , Contentment . As to any Papers left behind him , I dare say they can be but few ; for this reason , he never wrote out of Vanity , or thought much of the Applause of men . I know an in- stance where he did his utmost to ...
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... sufficient reason for believing , by the joint assist- ance of Pope and Arbuthnot . One purpose of it was to bring into contempt dr . Woodward the fossilist , a man not really or justly contemptible . It had the fate which such outrages ...
... sufficient reason for believing , by the joint assist- ance of Pope and Arbuthnot . One purpose of it was to bring into contempt dr . Woodward the fossilist , a man not really or justly contemptible . It had the fate which such outrages ...
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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