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Pagina 61
... pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his ...
... pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to be laboriously sought , and violently applied . That in the early parts of his life he wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his ...
Pagina 114
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
... pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he is undoubtedly ...
Pagina 417
... pleasing . Of the second ternary † of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell something , and would have told it , had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second describes well enough the universal prevalence of Poetry ; but I am ...
... pleasing . Of the second ternary † of stanzas , the first endeavours to tell something , and would have told it , had it not been crossed by Hyperion : the second describes well enough the universal prevalence of Poetry ; but I am ...
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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