The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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Pagina 6
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one ' kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one ' kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
Pagina 10
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
Pagina 11
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
Pagina 14
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
Pagina 17
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives judgment Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes supposed Syphax thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote