Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 216
... mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagina- tion ; but what has disease , deformity , and filth , upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell ? Delany is willing to think that ...
... mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagina- tion ; but what has disease , deformity , and filth , upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell ? Delany is willing to think that ...
Pagina 299
... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known ; and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by for- bearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations , which men give of their own minds , with ...
... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known ; and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by for- bearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations , which men give of their own minds , with ...
Pagina 365
... mind was capacious , his curiosity excursive , and his industry continual , his writings are very numerous , and his subjects various . With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire his meekness of opposi- tion , and ...
... mind was capacious , his curiosity excursive , and his industry continual , his writings are very numerous , and his subjects various . With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire his meekness of opposi- tion , 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 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