The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
Pagina 12
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
Pagina 16
... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
Pagina 24
... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
Pagina 33
... delighted with the song of Mapas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said , that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ...
... delighted with the song of Mapas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said , that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ...
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