Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... Natural History of Selborne ( Vols . I. & II . ) Lives of Pericles , Fabius Maximus , & c . Victories of Love Sorrows of Werter Lives of Butler , Denham , Dryden , & c . Religio Medici .. The North - West Passage Lives of Addison ...
... Natural History of Selborne ( Vols . I. & II . ) Lives of Pericles , Fabius Maximus , & c . Victories of Love Sorrows of Werter Lives of Butler , Denham , Dryden , & c . Religio Medici .. The North - West Passage Lives of Addison ...
Pagina 16
... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he was ...
... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he was ...
Pagina 21
... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about PRIOR . 21 of repair ...
... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about PRIOR . 21 of repair ...
Pagina 23
... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his ...
... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his ...
Pagina 24
... natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified ...
... natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified ...
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
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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