Specimens of the British Critics

admire Æneid ancient Arcite Asmoday beauty Ben Jonson blank verse cæsura Canterbury Tales character Chaucer Cibber comedy criticism death delight divine Dryden Dullness Dunces Dunciad Emelie English excellent eyes fame fancy flowers genius goddess grace hand hath heart heaven heroes Homer honour Horne human Iliad imagination imitation John Dryden Jonson Joseph Warton judgment king knight Knight's Tale labour ladies language learning living Lucretius manner master Milton mind modern moral Muse nature never numbers o'er original Ovid Palamon Paradise Lost passion persons Pindar poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose reader rhyme rules satire says scene seems sense Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's song soul speak Spenser spirit stage syllables Tale thee Theseus things thou thought tion tongue translation Troilus and Cressida true truth Virgil virtue Warton words writing