Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 16
... written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is written in professed imitation of Hudibras , and ...
... written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is written in professed imitation of Hudibras , and ...
Pagina 23
... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
Pagina 307
... written twice over ; I gave him a clean transcript , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . ' His declaration , that his care for his works ceased at their ...
... written twice over ; I gave him a clean transcript , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . ' His declaration , that his care for his works ceased at their ...
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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