Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 20
... seems to deserve insertion . " I have been assured that Prior , after having spent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe and drink a bottle of ale with a common soldier and his wife in Long ...
... seems to deserve insertion . " I have been assured that Prior , after having spent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe and drink a bottle of ale with a common soldier and his wife in Long ...
Pagina 21
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems , irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
Pagina 23
... wants a plan because it is left imperfect ; " Alma 29 imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
... wants a plan because it is left imperfect ; " Alma 29 imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
Pagina 26
... of his own tail . Whatever Prior obtains above mediocrity seems the effort of struggle and of toil . He has many vigorous , but few happy lines ; he has everything by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had 26 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... of his own tail . Whatever Prior obtains above mediocrity seems the effort of struggle and of toil . He has many vigorous , but few happy lines ; he has everything by purchase , and nothing by gift ; he had 26 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pagina 27
... seems to have been formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more ...
... seems to have been formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more ...
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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