The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... King , 1718 Apollo's Edict . Occasioned by ' News from Parnassus ' Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa The Beasts ' Confession • The Day of Judgement • • Extracts from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift ALEXANDER POPE ( 1688-1744 ) Extract ...
... King , 1718 Apollo's Edict . Occasioned by ' News from Parnassus ' Extract from Cadenus and Vanessa The Beasts ' Confession • The Day of Judgement • • Extracts from Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift ALEXANDER POPE ( 1688-1744 ) Extract ...
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... King but Charlie The Land o ' the Leal • MRS . BARBAULD ( 1743-1825 ) . Ode to Spring Life · George CrabbE ( 1754-1832 ) · The Village as it is ( from The Village ) Extracts from The Borough : The Convict's Dream . Strolling Players ...
... King but Charlie The Land o ' the Leal • MRS . BARBAULD ( 1743-1825 ) . Ode to Spring Life · George CrabbE ( 1754-1832 ) · The Village as it is ( from The Village ) Extracts from The Borough : The Convict's Dream . Strolling Players ...
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... King William . Having obtained a pension of £ 300 to enable him to travel , he visited the continent , and in 1701 wrote his Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax . When Godol- phin in 1704 was in search of a poet to celebrate in an ...
... King William . Having obtained a pension of £ 300 to enable him to travel , he visited the continent , and in 1701 wrote his Letter from Italy to Lord Halifax . When Godol- phin in 1704 was in search of a poet to celebrate in an ...
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... King William III is as artificial as the sentiments by which they were prompted . His sole conception of poetical compliment is hyperbole . When , for instance , he wishes to excuse himself for an inadequate celebration of William's ...
... King William III is as artificial as the sentiments by which they were prompted . His sole conception of poetical compliment is hyperbole . When , for instance , he wishes to excuse himself for an inadequate celebration of William's ...
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... their animated rocks to live : ' Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate And hold in balance each contending state , To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war , And answer B 2 JOSEPH ADDISON . 3 Extract from The Letter from Italy.
... their animated rocks to live : ' Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate And hold in balance each contending state , To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war , And answer B 2 JOSEPH ADDISON . 3 Extract from The Letter from Italy.
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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