The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn in Love for Love . His art of pleasing is founded on á vulgar , but perhaps impracticable principle , and the staleness of the sense is not ...
... expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn in Love for Love . His art of pleasing is founded on á vulgar , but perhaps impracticable principle , and the staleness of the sense is not ...
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... expression . He is unlucky in his competitions ; he tells the same idle tale with Congreve , and does not tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine ...
... expression . He is unlucky in his competitions ; he tells the same idle tale with Congreve , and does not tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine ...
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... expression the imagination of his examiners had impregnated with trea- son , and the doctor was enjoined to explain . Thus pressed , he told them that the words had lain unheeded in his pocket - book from the time of queen Anne , and ...
... expression the imagination of his examiners had impregnated with trea- son , and the doctor was enjoined to explain . Thus pressed , he told them that the words had lain unheeded in his pocket - book from the time of queen Anne , and ...
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... expression . His fables are generally stale , and therefore excite no curiosity . Of his favourite , The Two Springs , the fiction is unnatural , and the moral inconsequential . In his tales there is too much coarseness , with too ...
... expression . His fables are generally stale , and therefore excite no curiosity . Of his favourite , The Two Springs , the fiction is unnatural , and the moral inconsequential . In his tales there is too much coarseness , with too ...
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... expressions were clear ; he easily received impressions from objects , and very forcibly transmitted them to others . Of his exact observations on human life he has left a proof , which would do honour to the greatest names , in a small ...
... expressions were clear ; he easily received impressions from objects , and very forcibly transmitted them to others . Of his exact observations on human life he has left a proof , which would do honour to the greatest names , in a small ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence father faults favour Fenton friends friendship gave genius honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed once Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue write written wrote Young