Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 24
... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if the Old Batchelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to con- ceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if the Old Batchelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
Pagina 189
... knowledge . When he seemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work , he was told by the bishop , that he was a young man ; and , still persisting to doubt , that he was a very positive young man . Three years afterward ( 1704 ) was ...
... knowledge . When he seemed to doubt Burnet's right to the work , he was told by the bishop , that he was a young man ; and , still persisting to doubt , that he was a very positive young man . Three years afterward ( 1704 ) was ...
Pagina 442
... knowledge of his subject , had tossed it away . Pope , to punish his self - conceit , told him the secret . A new edition of the works of Bacon being prepared ( 1740 ) for the press , Mallet was employed to prefix a Life , which he has ...
... knowledge of his subject , had tossed it away . Pope , to punish his self - conceit , told him the secret . A new edition of the works of Bacon being prepared ( 1740 ) for the press , Mallet was employed to prefix a Life , which he has ...
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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 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