The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whosesoever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill that he can collect both of Dryden and his friends . THE poem of ...
... Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whosesoever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill that he can collect both of Dryden and his friends . THE poem of ...
Pàgina 41
... Pope himself declares , is an imita- tion , though more extended in its plan , and more diversified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorset , when as chamberlain he was constrained to eject Dryden from his office ...
... Pope himself declares , is an imita- tion , though more extended in its plan , and more diversified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorset , when as chamberlain he was constrained to eject Dryden from his office ...
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... Pope , the fairest of criticks , ' because he exhibited his own version to be compared with that which he condemned . His last work was his Fables , published in conse- quence , as is supposed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr ...
... Pope , the fairest of criticks , ' because he exhibited his own version to be compared with that which he condemned . His last work was his Fables , published in conse- quence , as is supposed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr ...
Pàgina 48
... Pope Clement the XIth ; and , visiting . England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to swim across the Thames at Windsor . JOHN was author of a comedy called The Husband his own Cuckold . He is said to have died at Rome .、 Henry ...
... Pope Clement the XIth ; and , visiting . England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to swim across the Thames at Windsor . JOHN was author of a comedy called The Husband his own Cuckold . He is said to have died at Rome .、 Henry ...
Pàgina 64
... Pope's in hi Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad , some ...
... Pope's in hi Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad , some ...
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