The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Količina 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of ...
... edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of ...
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... editions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can easily be found that has borrowed so little , or that in all his ...
... editions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can easily be found that has borrowed so little , or that in all his ...
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... edition had this line : ' What is this wit-- Where wanted , scorn'd ; and envied where acquired ? ' ' How , ' says the critic , ' can wit be scorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land ? The ...
... edition had this line : ' What is this wit-- Where wanted , scorn'd ; and envied where acquired ? ' ' How , ' says the critic , ' can wit be scorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land ? The ...
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... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired ; the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired ; the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
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... of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud POPE 55.
... of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud POPE 55.
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Aaron Hill acquainted Addison afterwards appears attention blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedication delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence expected fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour hope Iliad Ireland kind King known labour lady language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Orrery passion perhaps persuaded Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced published reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems Sir George Lyttelton Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift tell Thomson told tragedy translation virtue Walpole Warburton Westminster Abbey Winchester College write written wrote Young