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Pagina 27
Night has been a common subject, which poets have contended to adorn.
Dryden's Night is well known; Donne's is as follows: Thou seest me here at
midnight, now all rest: Time's dead low-water; when all minds divest To-morrow's
business, ...
Night has been a common subject, which poets have contended to adorn.
Dryden's Night is well known; Donne's is as follows: Thou seest me here at
midnight, now all rest: Time's dead low-water; when all minds divest To-morrow's
business, ...
Pagina 259
so many classes of the people were deducted from the audience, were not great;
and the poet had for a long time but a single night. The first that had two nights
was Southern, and the first that had three was Rowe. There were, however, in ...
so many classes of the people were deducted from the audience, were not great;
and the poet had for a long time but a single night. The first that had two nights
was Southern, and the first that had three was Rowe. There were, however, in ...
Pagina 412
That there might, however, be left as little to hazard as was possible, on the first
night, Steele, as himself relates, undertook to pack an audience. This, says Pope,
had been tried for the first time in favour of the Distrest Mother; and was now, ...
That there might, however, be left as little to hazard as was possible, on the first
night, Steele, as himself relates, undertook to pack an audience. This, says Pope,
had been tried for the first time in favour of the Distrest Mother; and was now, ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancient appears beauties better blank verse Cato censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden duke Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines lived lord Lord Conway Lord Roscommon Milton mind nature never nihil numbers observed opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced publick published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat supposed Syphax thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Whig words write written wrote
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of the English Poets |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| gepubliceerd | 1961 |
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