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... character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On ...
... character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On ...
Pagina 14
... character and fami- Jiar practices . He lived at a time when the rage of party detected all which it was any man's in- terest to hide ; and , as little ill is heard of Prior , it is certain that not much was known . He was not afraid of ...
... character and fami- Jiar practices . He lived at a time when the rage of party detected all which it was any man's in- terest to hide ; and , as little ill is heard of Prior , it is certain that not much was known . He was not afraid of ...
Pagina 22
... character suffers an abate- ment , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient conso- nance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cow- ley ...
... character suffers an abate- ment , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient conso- nance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cow- ley ...
Pagina 27
... characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy .. But if " The Old Bachelor " be more nearly ex- amined , it will be found to be one of ...
... characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy .. But if " The Old Bachelor " be more nearly ex- amined , it will be found to be one of ...
Pagina 28
... characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ... character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their ...
... characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ... character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence faults favour Fenton fore fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Ireland kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke mentioned mind nature neral never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems sent shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler thing Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young