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Pagina 137
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very rapidly adopted his master's ...
Pagina 205
... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
Pagina 353
... wrote , and professed to write , merely for the people ; and when he pleased others , he contented himself . He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good , nor ...
... wrote , and professed to write , merely for the people ; and when he pleased others , he contented himself . He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good , nor ...
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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