Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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... death .- ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death .- ' Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
Pagina 159
... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day , he has formed a happy combination of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day , he has formed a happy combination of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
Pagina 198
... death , he became a settled resident . The Archbishop of Dublin gave him at first some dis- turbance in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ; and ...
... death , he became a settled resident . The Archbishop of Dublin gave him at first some dis- turbance in the exercise of his jurisdiction ; but it was soon discovered , that between prudence and integrity he was seldom in the wrong ; and ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young