Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonG. Olms, 1968 |
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... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was pre- sented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was pre- sented to the King and Queen by the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
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... common adversary he prepared no common vengeance : he published a new edition of The Dunciad " , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of ...
... common adversary he prepared no common vengeance : he published a new edition of The Dunciad " , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of ...
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... common- places , though somewhat diversified by mingled qualities and the peculiarity of a profession . The second couplet is abrupt , general , and unpleasing ; ex- clamation seldom succeeds in our language , and I think it may be ...
... common- places , though somewhat diversified by mingled qualities and the peculiarity of a profession . The second couplet is abrupt , general , and unpleasing ; ex- clamation seldom succeeds in our language , and I think it may be ...
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Addison afterwards Akenside Ante appeared Biog blank verse Bolingbroke Boswell's Johnson Broome called character Cibber copy criticism Deane Swift death Delany Dryden Dunciad edition elegant Elwin and Court Elwin and Courthope English Epistle epitaph Essay on Pope father favour Fenton genius Gent Gibbon Gray Hist Homer honour hope Horace Walpole Iliad Imit King labour Lady lines lived London Lord Lyttelton Mallet Mason Memoirs mentioned MILTON mind Misc Mitford never Night Thoughts numbers Orrery Oxford passage Pastorals perhaps Philips Pindar poem poetical poetry Poets Pope wrote Pope's Works Elwin praise Preface printed prose publick published quoted reader rhyme satire says seems Shenstone shew Spence Spence's Anec stanza Swift wrote Thomson tion told translation verses viii vols Warburton Warton well's Johnson writes written xvii Young