Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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... poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the king , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy at the ...
... poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the king , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy at the ...
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... poet professedly encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was ...
... poet professedly encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was ...
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... poet was heard amidst the general acclama- tion ; the fame of our counsellors and heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome ...
... poet was heard amidst the general acclama- tion ; the fame of our counsellors and heroes was entrusted to the Gazetteer . The nation in time grew weary of the war , and the queen grew weary of her ministers . The war was burdensome ...
Pagina 13
... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly ...
... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly ...
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... tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is not unlikely that his health declined . He complains of deafness ; " for , ” says he , " I took little care of my ears while I 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is not unlikely that his health declined . He complains of deafness ; " for , ” says he , " I took little care of my ears while I 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2019 |
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