Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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Samuel Johnson. то SWIFT , GAY , BROOME , PITT , PARNELL , A. PHILIPS , AND WAT T S. VOL . VIII . 2 2 S W I IF T. A N Account of Dr. PREFACES.
Samuel Johnson. то SWIFT , GAY , BROOME , PITT , PARNELL , A. PHILIPS , AND WAT T S. VOL . VIII . 2 2 S W I IF T. A N Account of Dr. PREFACES.
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... Philips as the Paftoral writer that yielded only to Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenfer . Pope , who had also published Paftorals , not pleased to be overlooked , drew up a comparison of his own compofitions with those of Philips , in ...
... Philips as the Paftoral writer that yielded only to Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenfer . Pope , who had also published Paftorals , not pleased to be overlooked , drew up a comparison of his own compofitions with those of Philips , in ...
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... I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whi- ther they are going . They ftand upon the faith of the compilers . # I PHILIPS . O F the birth or early part PARNEL L. II This criticism relates only to the ...
... I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whi- ther they are going . They ftand upon the faith of the compilers . # I PHILIPS . O F the birth or early part PARNEL L. II This criticism relates only to the ...
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Samuel Johnson. I PHILIPS . O F the birth or early part of the life of AMBROSE PHILIPS I have not been able to find any account . His academical education he received at St. John's College in Cambridge , where he firft folicited the ...
Samuel Johnson. I PHILIPS . O F the birth or early part of the life of AMBROSE PHILIPS I have not been able to find any account . His academical education he received at St. John's College in Cambridge , where he firft folicited the ...
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affiftance afterwards becauſe Beggar's Opera Broome cenfured church confidered converfation criticiſm deanery death defire Delany diction dili Dublin Dunciad eafily Engliſh eſtabliſhed fafe faid fame fatire fays fchools fecond feems feized feldom fent fervant ferved feven fhew fhould fince firft firſt folicitations fome fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftate ftory ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently funk fupped fuppofed fure himſelf honour houfe houſe Iliad increaſed inftruction intereft Ireland JONATHAN SWIFT kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs Letters Lord Orrery mafter meaſure moſt muſt neceffary never obferves occafion Orrery paffed paffion Paftoral perfuaded Philips Pitt pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope pounds praiſe prefent princeſs profe publick publiſhed purpoſe Queen raiſe reader reafon refolution Reſtoration rienced ſeems ſome Spence Spenfer Swift Tatler tences Theocritus thofe THOMAS PARNELL thoſe thought tion told tranflation univerfally uſe verfes verſes vifit Whigs whofe write written wrote