Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing else . Whatever the profit of his employments might have been , he had always spent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was , with all his abilities , in danger of ...
... soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing else . Whatever the profit of his employments might have been , he had always spent it ; and at the age of fifty - three was , with all his abilities , in danger of ...
Pagina 28
... Soon as the rising eagle cuts the air ; The shaggy wolf unseen and trembling lies , When the hoarse roar proclaims the lion near . Ill - starred did we our forts and lines forsake , To dare our British foes to open fight : Our conquest ...
... Soon as the rising eagle cuts the air ; The shaggy wolf unseen and trembling lies , When the hoarse roar proclaims the lion near . Ill - starred did we our forts and lines forsake , To dare our British foes to open fight : Our conquest ...
Pagina 31
... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe- office , and another in the Customs , of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe- office , and another in the Customs , of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
Pagina 32
... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral , a composi- tion in which all is unnatural and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced Love for Love , a comedy ...
... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral , a composi- tion in which all is unnatural and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced Love for Love , a comedy ...
Pagina 40
... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwarked with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia ranged , and shining ...
... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwarked with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia ranged , and shining ...
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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