Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 36
... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
Pagina 283
... verse and prose : the verses are in this poem ; and the prose , though it was never sent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the present time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . His last Satires , of the ...
... verse and prose : the verses are in this poem ; and the prose , though it was never sent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the present time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity . His last Satires , of the ...
Pagina 305
... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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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