Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 26
... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
Pagina 41
... that is quoted . The general character of his " Miscellanies " is that they show little wit and little virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and CONGREVE . 41.
... that is quoted . The general character of his " Miscellanies " is that they show little wit and little virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and CONGREVE . 41.
Pagina 44
... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches ...
... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches ...
Pagina 46
... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
Pagina 47
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he ...
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he ...
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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