The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10 , 1715 ) moved for an impeachment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for some time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10 , 1715 ) moved for an impeachment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood ...
Pagina 17
... endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his ...
... endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his ...
Pagina 27
... endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladia- tors ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
... endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind of intellectual gladia- tors ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
Pagina 34
... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his " Mourning Bride " than it has obtained from any other critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance ...
... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his " Mourning Bride " than it has obtained from any other critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance ...
Pagina 41
... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on ...
... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad 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 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 racters 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