The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... verse than it could be expressed in prose . Nor is this to be attributed to the comparatively prosaic nature of the subjects he undertakes . Dryden , Pope , and Goldsmith write on themes which seem un- propitious when compared with the ...
... verse than it could be expressed in prose . Nor is this to be attributed to the comparatively prosaic nature of the subjects he undertakes . Dryden , Pope , and Goldsmith write on themes which seem un- propitious when compared with the ...
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... verse compared with that of Pope . Poems of this kind are seldom very sincere ; but some of Pope's noblest lines of praise were addressed to the not very noble Earl of Oxford . Whether or no Pope really felt as he pretended , he seemed ...
... verse compared with that of Pope . Poems of this kind are seldom very sincere ; but some of Pope's noblest lines of praise were addressed to the not very noble Earl of Oxford . Whether or no Pope really felt as he pretended , he seemed ...
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... verse , and certainly was alone in praising his very remarkable Defence of the Fair Sex , in which the young poet , in an age given up to selfish gallantry , recommended the honourable equality of the sexes and the views now understood ...
... verse , and certainly was alone in praising his very remarkable Defence of the Fair Sex , in which the young poet , in an age given up to selfish gallantry , recommended the honourable equality of the sexes and the views now understood ...
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... verse , through distant times they come , Preserved , like bees within an amber tomb , ' which Pope did not disdain to re - work on his own anvil into brighter shapes . It should be noted that Walsh is the author of the only sonnet ...
... verse , through distant times they come , Preserved , like bees within an amber tomb , ' which Pope did not disdain to re - work on his own anvil into brighter shapes . It should be noted that Walsh is the author of the only sonnet ...
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... since been heard in familiar verse ; and the little song ' False though she be to me and love ' has almost a note of genuine regret . AUSTIN DOBSON . AMORET . Fair Amoret is gone astray ; Pursue and WILLIAM CONGREVE . II Amoret Song.
... since been heard in familiar verse ; and the little song ' False though she be to me and love ' has almost a note of genuine regret . AUSTIN DOBSON . AMORET . Fair Amoret is gone astray ; Pursue and WILLIAM CONGREVE . II Amoret Song.
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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