Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 55
... meaning well . He was not yet deterred from heroic poetry . There was another monarch of this island ( for he did not fetch his heroes from foreign countries ) whom he considered as worthy the epic muse , and he dignified " Alfred ...
... meaning well . He was not yet deterred from heroic poetry . There was another monarch of this island ( for he did not fetch his heroes from foreign countries ) whom he considered as worthy the epic muse , and he dignified " Alfred ...
Pagina 56
... mean , that we are en tertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table conversation of ingenious and ... meaning , in the preface to another book , as if I condemned and exposed all learning , though they knew I declared ...
... mean , that we are en tertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table conversation of ingenious and ... meaning , in the preface to another book , as if I condemned and exposed all learning , though they knew I declared ...
Pagina 71
... means the qualification which this author reckons absolutely necessary to a critic , it being very certain that he was , like this essayer a very indifferent poet ; he loved to be well dressed ; and I remember a little young gentleman ...
... means the qualification which this author reckons absolutely necessary to a critic , it being very certain that he was , like this essayer a very indifferent poet ; he loved to be well dressed ; and I remember a little young gentleman ...
Pagina 79
... means inconsiderable , and greater than I believe to have been ever asked before . His proposal , however , was very favourably received , and the patrons of litera- ture were busy to recommend his undertaking and pro- mote his interest ...
... means inconsiderable , and greater than I believe to have been ever asked before . His proposal , however , was very favourably received , and the patrons of litera- ture were busy to recommend his undertaking and pro- mote his interest ...
Pagina 82
... meaning than any other poet either in the learned or in modern languages . I have read of a man who , being by his ignorance of Greek compelled to gratify his curiosity with the Latin printed on the oppo- site page , declared that from ...
... meaning than any other poet either in the learned or in modern languages . I have read of a man who , being by his ignorance of Greek compelled to gratify his curiosity with the Latin printed on the oppo- site page , declared that from ...
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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