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Pagina 134
... reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known be- yond what casual mention and ...
... reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known be- yond what casual mention and ...
Pagina 161
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
Pagina 263
... reputation , and , a little before he retired from it , published a volume of Latin and English verses . Under such a master he was likely to form a taste for poetry . Being born without prospect of hereditary riches , he was sent to ...
... reputation , and , a little before he retired from it , published a volume of Latin and English verses . Under such a master he was likely to form a taste for poetry . Being born without prospect of hereditary riches , he was sent to ...
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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