Lectures on the English Poets

absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh LECTURE lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted Paradise Lost passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit Stoops to Conquer story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice vulgar whole wild words Wordsworth