Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 55
... favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor ...
... favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor ...
Pagina 69
... favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all ...
... favour as enraged Dennis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all ...
Pagina 73
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
Pagina 79
... favour of the public extended by soliciting a subscription to a version of the " Iliad , " with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which this ...
... favour of the public extended by soliciting a subscription to a version of the " Iliad , " with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which this ...
Pagina 80
... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
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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