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The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… O'er crabbed authors life's gay prime to waste, To cramp wild genius in the chains of taste, To bear the slavish drudgery of schools, And tamely stoop to ev'ry pedant's rules, For seven long years debarr'd …
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… the Poet's lays, It is to History he trusts for Praise. F. Better be Cibber, I'll maintain it still, Than ridicule all Taste, blaspheme Quadrille, Abuse the City's best good men in metre, [40] And laugh at Peers that put their trust in …
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… could not, for instance, be considered for the post of poet laureate, despite his crucial role in informing the literary tastes and stylistic conventions of his time. His poetry encompassed esteemed translations of classical works (his … in cheek, Elinor Dashwood of Sense and Sensibility (1811) congratulates her sister Marianne on her beloved’s literary tastes: You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and …
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John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… Cecile Thelwall wrote in her 1837 biography: ‘ the prospect of mingling in circles of society, more correspondent to his taste and turn of mind than those to which had hitherto been confined, had altogether formed an association intoxicating’ …
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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… look: the yew-tree had its ghost, That took his station there for ornament: The dignities of plain occurrence then Were tasteless, and truth's golden mean, a point Where no sufficient pleasure could be found. Then, if a widow, staggering …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… of Mortals are so different and bent on such diverse Journeys that it may at first appear impossible for any common taste and fellowship to exist […]—It is however quite the contrary—Minds would leave each other in contrary directions, …
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