The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
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... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called The Legion Club ...
... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called The Legion Club ...
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... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inattention by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
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... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely at- tempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely at- tempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
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... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of ...
... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of ...
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Aaron Hill acquainted Addison afterwards appears attention blank verse Bolingbroke called censure character copy criticism Curll death dedication delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad edition Edward Young elegance endeavoured English English poetry Epistle epitaph Essay excellence expected fame father faults favour friendship genius Homer honour hope Iliad Ireland kind King known labour lady language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lyttelton Mallet mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers opinion Orrery passion perhaps persuaded Philips Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed produced published reader reason received reputation rhyme satire says seems Sir George Lyttelton Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift tell Thomson told tragedy translation virtue Walpole Warburton Westminster Abbey Winchester College write written wrote Young