Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 334
... perhaps Anguil- lara's Ovid may be excepted , which is read with eagerness . The Iliad of Salvini every reader may discover to be punctiliously exact ; but it seems to be the work of a linguist skilfully pedantick , and his countrymen ...
... perhaps Anguil- lara's Ovid may be excepted , which is read with eagerness . The Iliad of Salvini every reader may discover to be punctiliously exact ; but it seems to be the work of a linguist skilfully pedantick , and his countrymen ...
Pagina 374
... perhaps be inconsistent with that blissful state . You did right to call your daughter by her name ; for you must needs have had a particular tender friendship for one another , endeared as you were by nature , by having passed the ...
... perhaps be inconsistent with that blissful state . You did right to call your daughter by her name ; for you must needs have had a particular tender friendship for one another , endeared as you were by nature , by having passed the ...
Pagina 445
... perhaps in a less respectable light as a poet , and more despicable as a dedicator : he would not pass for a worse christian , or for a worse man . - This enviable praise is due to Young . Can it be claimed by every writer ? His ...
... perhaps in a less respectable light as a poet , and more despicable as a dedicator : he would not pass for a worse christian , or for a worse man . - This enviable praise is due to Young . Can it be claimed by every writer ? His ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared Atrides blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt conversation criticism death declared delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured English epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius Homer honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind ment mentioned mind nature neglected ness never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present printed publick published Queen reader reason received remarkable reputation satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon sufficient supposed Swift Thomson tion told translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs write written wrote Young