The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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Pagina 53
... imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of prose , nor the sprightliness of poetry . The " strength of Denham , " which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much ...
... imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of prose , nor the sprightliness of poetry . The " strength of Denham , " which Pope so emphatically mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much ...
Pagina 63
... imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the house of one Russel , a tailor in St. Bride's Church - yard , and undertook the education of John and Edward Philips , his sister's sons . Finding his rooms too little , he took ...
... imitation of pastoral life . He now hired a lodging at the house of one Russel , a tailor in St. Bride's Church - yard , and undertook the education of John and Edward Philips , his sister's sons . Finding his rooms too little , he took ...
Pagina 65
... imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sun- day was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that were then fashionable in the Dutch universities . He set his ...
... imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sun- day was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that were then fashionable in the Dutch universities . He set his ...
Pagina 91
... imitation of the ancients , and never designed by the Author for the stage . As these poems were published by another bookseller , it has been asked whether Simmons was discouraged from receiving them by the slow sale of the former ...
... imitation of the ancients , and never designed by the Author for the stage . As these poems were published by another bookseller , it has been asked whether Simmons was discouraged from receiving them by the slow sale of the former ...
Pagina 99
... imitation of the ancient writers , by the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention , or vigour of sentiment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excel the odes ; and some of the ...
... imitation of the ancient writers , by the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention , or vigour of sentiment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excel the odes ; and some of the ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards ancients appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions confessed considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy faults favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives judgment Juvenal kind King knew known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes supposed Syphax thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote