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Pagina 12
... epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitę filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginęque MARIE In Congressione ...
... epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitę filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginęque MARIE In Congressione ...
Pagina 19
... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written só much and translated so little : the version of Cal- limachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
... epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written só much and translated so little : the version of Cal- limachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful ...
Pagina 66
... Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words as for Flou- rish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing for writing sake , and wd rather shew their own Fine Parts , yn Report ...
... Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words as for Flou- rish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing for writing sake , and wd rather shew their own Fine Parts , yn Report ...
Pagina 377
... Epitaphs . To define an epitaphis useless ; every one knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writ- ing , but may be composed in verse or prose POPE . 377.
... Epitaphs . To define an epitaphis useless ; every one knows that it is an inscription on a tomb . An epitaph , therefore , implies no particular character of writ- ing , but may be composed in verse or prose POPE . 377.
Pagina 378
... epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want , that the man for whom the tomb was erected died . There are indeed some qualities worthy of praise ascribed to the dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot ...
... epitaph contains a kind of information which few would want , that the man for whom the tomb was erected died . There are indeed some qualities worthy of praise ascribed to the dead , but none that were likely to exempt him from the lot ...
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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