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Pagina 122
... once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of English literature . Of ...
... once been quoted , by Rymer it has once been praised , and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recollect much other notice from its publication till now , in the whole succession of English literature . Of ...
Pagina 398
... once an opportunity of record- ing the fraternal kindness of Thomson , and reflecting on the friendly assistance of Mr Boswell , from whom I received it . ' MY DEAR SISTER , ' Hagley , in Worcestershire , ' October the 4th , 1747 ' I ...
... once an opportunity of record- ing the fraternal kindness of Thomson , and reflecting on the friendly assistance of Mr Boswell , from whom I received it . ' MY DEAR SISTER , ' Hagley , in Worcestershire , ' October the 4th , 1747 ' I ...
Pagina 400
... once reading to Doddington , who , being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hand , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
... once reading to Doddington , who , being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hand , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
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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