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Pagina 131
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . ' In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . ' In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
Pagina 139
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
Pagina 346
... observed , and of what could he be proud but of his poetry ? He writes , he says , when he has just nothing else to do ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for conversation , because he had always some poetical scheme in ...
... observed , and of what could he be proud but of his poetry ? He writes , he says , when he has just nothing else to do ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for conversation , because he had always some poetical scheme in ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote