Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1952 - 472 pagina's |
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Pagina 187
... virtue ; and virtue his poet thought himself at liberty to supply . Charles had yet only the merit of struggling without success , and suffering without despair . A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid ...
... virtue ; and virtue his poet thought himself at liberty to supply . Charles had yet only the merit of struggling without success , and suffering without despair . A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid ...
Pagina 339
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it be ...
... virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice detestable , though it be ...
Pagina 435
... virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar , but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevails over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba ; and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of ...
... virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar , but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevails over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba ; and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passages passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax Tatler thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote