Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 52
... hand ; and while the fancy is full of images , collected from innu- merable objects , and their different qualities , relations , and habitudes , it can at pleasure dress a common notion in a strange but becoming garb , by which , as ...
... hand ; and while the fancy is full of images , collected from innu- merable objects , and their different qualities , relations , and habitudes , it can at pleasure dress a common notion in a strange but becoming garb , by which , as ...
Pagina 60
... hand directed all the tuneful spheres , He turned their orbs , and polished all the stars . He filled the Sun's vast lamp with golden light : And bid the silver Moon adorn the night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where ...
... hand directed all the tuneful spheres , He turned their orbs , and polished all the stars . He filled the Sun's vast lamp with golden light : And bid the silver Moon adorn the night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where ...
Pagina 63
... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
... hand was not elegant . When he was about eight he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practised , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly ...
Pagina 65
... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put " January and May " and the " Prologue of the Wife of Bath " into modern English . He translated likewise the ...
... hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put " January and May " and the " Prologue of the Wife of Bath " into modern English . He translated likewise the ...
Pagina 68
... hands for correction . Their correspondence afforded the public its first knowledge of Pope's epistolary powers , for his letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and she many years afterwards sold them to Curll , who ...
... hands for correction . Their correspondence afforded the public its first knowledge of Pope's epistolary powers , for his letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and she many years afterwards sold them to Curll , who ...
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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