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Pagina 195
... shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy . Davenant was perhaps at this time his favourite author , though Gondibert never appears to have been popular ...
... shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy . Davenant was perhaps at this time his favourite author , though Gondibert never appears to have been popular ...
Pagina 264
... shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must be exhibited such as grossness and ignorance have made it . So far the plan was reasonable ; but the Pastorals are introduced by a Proeme , written with ...
... shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must be exhibited such as grossness and ignorance have made it . So far the plan was reasonable ; but the Pastorals are introduced by a Proeme , written with ...
Pagina 359
... shew . A simile , to be perfect , must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must shew it to the under- standing in a clearer view , and display it to the fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities may be sufficient ...
... shew . A simile , to be perfect , must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must shew it to the under- standing in a clearer view , and display it to the fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities may be sufficient ...
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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