The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... tell ! Nothing but groans and sighs were heard around , And echo multiplied each mournful sound . In both these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many syllables of senseless dolour , he dismisses his reader with senseless ...
... tell ! Nothing but groans and sighs were heard around , And echo multiplied each mournful sound . In both these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many syllables of senseless dolour , he dismisses his reader with senseless ...
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... tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) ...
... tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) ...
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... tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine his performances one by one would be tedi- His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few ...
... tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine his performances one by one would be tedi- His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few ...
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... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your character in the fairest light to some who either mis- took you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your character in the fairest light to some who either mis- took you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
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... telling it , is not known . The report is , that he was soon weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible ...
... telling it , is not known . The report is , that he was soon weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible ...
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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