Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1889 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius ...
... human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius ...
Pagina 38
... human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or else some transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listen- Hark ! LEONORA . ALMERIA . No , all is hushed and still as death . ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the ...
... human voice . ALMERIA . It was thy fear , or else some transient wind Whistling through hollows of this vaulted isle : We'll listen- Hark ! LEONORA . ALMERIA . No , all is hushed and still as death . ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the ...
Pagina 50
... human nature , which is incapable of faultless produc- tions . When an excellent drama appears in public , and by its intrinsic worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage ...
... human nature , which is incapable of faultless produc- tions . When an excellent drama appears in public , and by its intrinsic worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage ...
Pagina 65
... human life and public affairs as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with ...
... human life and public affairs as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with ...
Pagina 66
... Human Understanding . " His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show with sufficient evidence his knowledge of books . He that is ...
... Human Understanding . " His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show with sufficient evidence his knowledge of books . He that is ...
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English poets Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise present printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation RICHARD HAKLUYT ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey write written wrote