Lives of the English Poets: A SelectionDent, 1975 - 470 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... least one important work of fiction , Rasselas , and two important poems , London and The Vanity of Human Wishes ; he tried his hand at a stage tragedy in the high neo - classic manner ; the result , Irene , is today one of the least ...
... least one important work of fiction , Rasselas , and two important poems , London and The Vanity of Human Wishes ; he tried his hand at a stage tragedy in the high neo - classic manner ; the result , Irene , is today one of the least ...
Pagina 32
... least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; the ...
... least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; the ...
Pagina 301
... least , he had not deserved , was such that he broke off all correspondence with most of his contributors , and appeared to consider them as persecutors and oppressors ; and in the latter part of his life declared that their conduct ...
... least , he had not deserved , was such that he broke off all correspondence with most of his contributors , and appeared to consider them as persecutors and oppressors ; and in the latter part of his life declared that their conduct ...
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JOHN MILTON | 47 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote