Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 45
... editions , a very uncommon instance of favourable reception , at a time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal ...
... editions , a very uncommon instance of favourable reception , at a time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal ...
Pagina 47
... edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was his reason , I know not ; Dryden was then no longer in his way . His head still teemed with heroic poetry ; and ( 1705 ) he published " Eliza , " in ten books . I am ...
... edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was his reason , I know not ; Dryden was then no longer in his way . His head still teemed with heroic poetry ; and ( 1705 ) he published " Eliza , " in ten books . I am ...
Pagina 71
... edition had this line : - " What is this wit- Where wanted scorned ; and envied where acquired ? ” " How , " says the critic , " can wit be scorned where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hiber- nian land ? The ...
... edition had this line : - " What is this wit- Where wanted scorned ; and envied where acquired ? ” " How , " says the critic , " can wit be scorned where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hiber- nian land ? The ...
Pagina 75
... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired , the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired , the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
Pagina 80
... edition of the English " Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be counteracted by ...
... edition of the English " Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be counteracted by ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original passages performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation resentment ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CONGREVE write written wrote