Lives of the English Poets, Volumen2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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... remarkable for delicacy of connection or elegance of style . These praises in a short time he found himself inclined to retract , being discarded by the man on whom he had bestowed them , and whom he then immediately dis- covered not to ...
... remarkable for delicacy of connection or elegance of style . These praises in a short time he found himself inclined to retract , being discarded by the man on whom he had bestowed them , and whom he then immediately dis- covered not to ...
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... remarkable , that , so near his time , so much should be known of what he has written , and so little of what he has said : traditional memory retains no sallies of raillery , nor sentences of observation ; nothing either pointed or ...
... remarkable , that , so near his time , so much should be known of what he has written , and so little of what he has said : traditional memory retains no sallies of raillery , nor sentences of observation ; nothing either pointed or ...
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... remarkable for wearing his grey hair in a particular manner ; for he held that the fashion was no rule of dress , and that every man was to suit his appearance to his natural form . His mind was not very comprehensive , nor his ...
... remarkable for wearing his grey hair in a particular manner ; for he held that the fashion was no rule of dress , and that every man was to suit his appearance to his natural form . His mind was not very comprehensive , nor his ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young