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Pagina 8
... write the Lives , and a great part of the time only thinking , ' but in 1781 he was able to say , ' Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work and ...
... write the Lives , and a great part of the time only thinking , ' but in 1781 he was able to say , ' Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work and ...
Pagina 154
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
Pagina 415
... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely , and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write ...
... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely , and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write ...
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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