Lives of the English Poets: William Congreve. Sir Richard Blackmore. Elijah Fenton. John Gay. George Granville, lord Lansdown. Thomas Yalden. Thomas Tickell. James Hammond. William Somerville. Richard Savage. Alexander Pope. Jonathan Swift. William Broome. Christopher Pitt. James Thomson. Isacc Watts. Ambrose Philips. Gilbert West. William Collins. John Dyer. William Shenstone. Edward Young. David Mallet. Mark Akenside. Lord Lyttleton. Thomas GrayOxford University Press, 1949 |
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... conversation , and so long had he been accustomed to live by chance , that he would at any time go to the tavern without scruple , and trust for the reckoning to the liberality of his company , and frequently of company to whom he was ...
... conversation , and so long had he been accustomed to live by chance , that he would at any time go to the tavern without scruple , and trust for the reckoning to the liberality of his company , and frequently of company to whom he was ...
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... conversation , and desisted from study , he had neither business nor amusement ; for having , by some ridiculous resolution or mad vow , determined never to wear spectacles , he could make little use of books in his later years : his ...
... conversation , and desisted from study , he had neither business nor amusement ; for having , by some ridiculous resolution or mad vow , determined never to wear spectacles , he could make little use of books in his later years : his ...
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... conversation was elegant and easy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , sink into silence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high class . There is no species of composition in which he was eminent ...
... conversation was elegant and easy . The rest of his character may , without injury to his memory , sink into silence . As a writer , he cannot be placed in any high class . There is no species of composition in which he was eminent ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Atrides blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt conversation criticism death declared delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad easily elegance endeavoured epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius happy Homer honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind ment mentioned mind nature neglected ness never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed publick published Queen reader reason received remarked reputation satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson tion told translation unkle verses virtue Whigs write written wrote Young