The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Količina 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... never be a poet , ' and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained from King William a promise of ...
... never be a poet , ' and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dryden . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manuscripts to Swift , for whom he had obtained from King William a promise of ...
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... never owned by himself , nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchess of Somerset , by showing it to the Queen , debarred him from a ...
... never owned by himself , nor very well proved by any evidence ; but no other claimant can be produced , and he did not deny it when Archbishop Sharpe and the Duchess of Somerset , by showing it to the Queen , debarred him from a ...
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... never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject ? We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us , and we would take away the greatest , perhaps the only , topic we have left . Who would ever have ...
... never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject ? We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us , and we would take away the greatest , perhaps the only , topic we have left . Who would ever have ...
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... never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and ...
... never completed , but well planned to excite amazement . Soon after began the busy and important part of Swift's life . He was employed ( 1710 ) by the primate of Ireland to solicit the Queen for a remission of the First Fruits and ...
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... never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal processions , and looked with idolatry on the General and his friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbitress of nations ...
... never had any writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal processions , and looked with idolatry on the General and his friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbitress of nations ...
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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