Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1889 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 23
... plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
... plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
Pagina 25
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram ...
Pagina 26
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor in- dulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ' ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded ...
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor in- dulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ' ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded ...
Pagina 31
... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things necessary to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of ...
... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things necessary to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of ...
Pagina 34
... never make him suspected for a Puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation . He was formed ...
... never make him suspected for a Puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation . He was formed ...
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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