The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature ...
... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature ...
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... hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petulance of Cibber was con- futed , though perhaps not shamed , by general applause . Fenton's profits are said to have amounted to near a thou- sand ...
... hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petulance of Cibber was con- futed , though perhaps not shamed , by general applause . Fenton's profits are said to have amounted to near a thou- sand ...
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... hope , and deeply depressed when his hopes were disappointed . This is not the character of a hero ; but it may naturally imply something more generally welcome , a soft and civil com- panion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others is ...
... hope , and deeply depressed when his hopes were disappointed . This is not the character of a hero ; but it may naturally imply something more generally welcome , a soft and civil com- panion . Whoever is apt to hope good from others is ...
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... hope , with your leave and assistance , to be in readiness before any action can begin . I beseech you , sir , most humbly and most earnestly , to add this one act of indulgence more to so many other testimonies which I have constantly ...
... hope , with your leave and assistance , to be in readiness before any action can begin . I beseech you , sir , most humbly and most earnestly , to add this one act of indulgence more to so many other testimonies which I have constantly ...
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... hope excited by a work of genius , being general and indefinite , is rarely gratified . It was read at that time with so much favour , that six editions were sold . At the arrival of king George he sang The Royal Pro- gress ; which ...
... hope excited by a work of genius , being general and indefinite , is rarely gratified . It was read at that time with so much favour , that six editions were sold . At the arrival of king George he sang The Royal Pro- gress ; which ...
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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