The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonT. Longman, 1794 - English poetry |
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... master's gardener , who perfon- ated Ajax . dic At the two laft fchools he used to repre- fent himself as having loft part of what Ta- -verner had taught him ; and on his master at Twyford he had already exercifed his poetry 29 in a ...
... master's gardener , who perfon- ated Ajax . dic At the two laft fchools he used to repre- fent himself as having loft part of what Ta- -verner had taught him ; and on his master at Twyford he had already exercifed his poetry 29 in a ...
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... master . I I Integrity of understanding and nicety of difcernment were not allotted in a lefs propor- tion to Dryden than to Pope . The rectitude of Dryden's mind was fufficiently fhewn by " the difmiflion of his poetical prejudices ...
... master . I I Integrity of understanding and nicety of difcernment were not allotted in a lefs propor- tion to Dryden than to Pope . The rectitude of Dryden's mind was fufficiently fhewn by " the difmiflion of his poetical prejudices ...
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... masters in variety and elegance , and the art of interchanging defcription , narrative , and morality . The objection made by Dennis is the want of plan , of a regular subordination of parts terminating in the principal and original ...
... masters in variety and elegance , and the art of interchanging defcription , narrative , and morality . The objection made by Dennis is the want of plan , of a regular subordination of parts terminating in the principal and original ...
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... The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient fteps , for all was fairy ground . We have now furely loft much of the delay , and much of the rapidity . But , But , to fhew how little the greatest master of 172 POPE .
... The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient fteps , for all was fairy ground . We have now furely loft much of the delay , and much of the rapidity . But , But , to fhew how little the greatest master of 172 POPE .
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Samuel Johnson. But , to fhew how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of repre- fentative harmony , it will be fufficient to re- mark that the poet , who tells us , that When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight ...
Samuel Johnson. But , to fhew how little the greatest master of numbers can fix the principles of repre- fentative harmony , it will be fufficient to re- mark that the poet , who tells us , that When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight ...
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