Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1889 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... language , but fills a great part of the Musa Anglicanę . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the king , by whom it was not ...
... language , but fills a great part of the Musa Anglicanę . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the king , by whom it was not ...
Pagina 10
... language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . " Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might ...
... language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . " Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident or imitation , is not easy to determine . Tickell might ...
Pagina 21
... language is easy , but seldom gross , and the numbers smooth , without appearance of care . Of these tales there are only four : " The Ladle , " which is introduced by a preface , neither necessary nor pleasing , neither grave nor merry ...
... language is easy , but seldom gross , and the numbers smooth , without appearance of care . Of these tales there are only four : " The Ladle , " which is introduced by a preface , neither necessary nor pleasing , neither grave nor merry ...
Pagina 24
... failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pagina 25
... language and succession of images . Every couplet , when produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ...
... language and succession of images . Every couplet , when produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ...
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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