The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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... produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bed - chamber ...
... produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bed - chamber ...
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... produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
... produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
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... produced by that event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
... produced by that event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
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... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you should think ...
... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you should think ...
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... produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the ...
... produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young