Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 176
... Perhaps I can give reasons for that disapprobation , very foreign from what you would imagine . You go on in saying , Suppose I should not put my name to it - My answer is , that I will not suppose any such thing , being determined to ...
... Perhaps I can give reasons for that disapprobation , very foreign from what you would imagine . You go on in saying , Suppose I should not put my name to it - My answer is , that I will not suppose any such thing , being determined to ...
Pagina 179
... perhaps as often obscures as embellishes them . His judgement was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief attainment ; and it is not without some satisfac- tion , that I can ...
... perhaps as often obscures as embellishes them . His judgement was eminently exact both with regard to writings and to men . The knowledge of life was indeed his chief attainment ; and it is not without some satisfac- tion , that I can ...
Pagina 398
... perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who shall point them out ? ' Yet Pope is said by Ruffhead to have told Warburton , that " Young had much of a sublime ...
... perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who shall point them out ? ' Yet Pope is said by Ruffhead to have told Warburton , that " Young had much of a sublime ...
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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