The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
Samuel Johnson. Boscawen , a Middlesex justice , who at last was going to write his attestation on the wrong side of ... writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing 8 PRIOR .
Samuel Johnson. Boscawen , a Middlesex justice , who at last was going to write his attestation on the wrong side of ... writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing 8 PRIOR .
Pagina 13
... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mytholo- gical . Venus , after the example of the Greek Epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mytholo- gical . Venus , after the example of the Greek Epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
Pagina 14
... write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected ...
... write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected ...
Pagina 16
... write , and the philosopher to reason . I If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
... write , and the philosopher to reason . I If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
Pagina 18
... writing by unnecessary severity , but uses triplets and Alexandripes without scruple . In his preface to " Solomon " he proposes some improvements , by extending the sense from one couplet to another , with variety of pauses . This he ...
... writing by unnecessary severity , but uses triplets and Alexandripes without scruple . In his preface to " Solomon " he proposes some improvements , by extending the sense from one couplet to another , with variety of pauses . This he ...
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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