The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... English poem was an address to Dryden on the publication of the latter's Transla- tions of Ovid . This was written in his twenty - second year . In 1694 he published , in one of Dryden's Miscellanies , his Account of the Principal English ...
... English poem was an address to Dryden on the publication of the latter's Transla- tions of Ovid . This was written in his twenty - second year . In 1694 he published , in one of Dryden's Miscellanies , his Account of the Principal English ...
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... d all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death survey'd , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage , And taught the doubtful THE ENGLISH POETS . 19 The Campaign.
... d all the dreadful scenes of war ; In peaceful thought the field of death survey'd , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage , And taught the doubtful THE ENGLISH POETS . 19 The Campaign.
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... riches or of fame , Or the vain toys the vulgar pleasures name , ' Tis nothing , Celia , but the losing thee ! THE DESPAIRING LOVER . Distracted with care For Phyllis the 8 THE ENGLISH POETS . To His Book (1691) Sonnet.
... riches or of fame , Or the vain toys the vulgar pleasures name , ' Tis nothing , Celia , but the losing thee ! THE DESPAIRING LOVER . Distracted with care For Phyllis the 8 THE ENGLISH POETS . To His Book (1691) Sonnet.
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... Though I deplore her change . In hours of bliss we oft have met , They could not always last ; And though the present I regret I'm grateful for the past . SIR SAMUEL GARTH . [ SAMUEL GARTH was born at 12 THE ENGLISH POETS .
... Though I deplore her change . In hours of bliss we oft have met , They could not always last ; And though the present I regret I'm grateful for the past . SIR SAMUEL GARTH . [ SAMUEL GARTH was born at 12 THE ENGLISH POETS .
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... English literature . Claremont and his other minor works display the same faculty , but at their date it was already common enough . We therefore here give extracts from The Dispensary only , reminding the reader that the poem gives a ...
... English literature . Claremont and his other minor works display the same faculty , but at their date it was already common enough . We therefore here give extracts from The Dispensary only , reminding the reader that the poem gives a ...
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Addison admiration ALLAN RAMSAY Ambrose Philips beauty beneath blest born breast breath Burns Castle of Indolence charm Chatterton critics dear death delight Dryden Dunciad e'er Eclogues English English poetry Epistle Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate feel fool frae genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY grace Gratius Faliscus grave Gray Grongar Hill hand happy hear heart heaven kings labour literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers o'er once pain passion perhaps Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prose rhyme rise round satire sense shade shine sing smile song soul spirit Spleen sweet Swift taste tear tell thee things THOMAS TICKELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling truth Twas verse virtue Whig wind wise write youth