Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 |
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... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' Soon after the duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' Soon after the duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
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... give . He did not grow rich by injuring his suc- cessors , but left both Laracor and the Deanery more valuable than he found them . - With all this talk of his covetousness and generosity , it should be remembered that he was never rich ...
... give . He did not grow rich by injuring his suc- cessors , but left both Laracor and the Deanery more valuable than he found them . - With all this talk of his covetousness and generosity , it should be remembered that he was never rich ...
Pagina 435
... give in exchange the bar , though not at so late a period of life as Young took Orders , it will be owing , in no small measure , to my having had the happiness of calling the author of The Rambler my friend . ' Oxford , Sept. 1782 ...
... give in exchange the bar , though not at so late a period of life as Young took Orders , it will be owing , in no small measure , to my having had the happiness of calling the author of The Rambler my friend . ' Oxford , Sept. 1782 ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young