The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wise reflections of Tacitus . Since Temple and Roscommon , no man under- stood Horace better , especially as to his happy diction , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wise reflections of Tacitus . Since Temple and Roscommon , no man under- stood Horace better , especially as to his happy diction , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
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... elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct upon the English stage ...
... elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct upon the English stage ...
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... elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us , in one of his pieces , that he had once a design to have written the tragedy of Phædra ; but ...
... elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells us , in one of his pieces , that he had once a design to have written the tragedy of Phædra ; but ...
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... elegant . No passages fall below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed without just proportion to the subject ; the means and end have no necessary connexion . Resnel , in his preface to Pope's Essay , remarks ...
... elegant . No passages fall below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed without just proportion to the subject ; the means and end have no necessary connexion . Resnel , in his preface to Pope's Essay , remarks ...
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... elegant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in which , under the name of Tamerlane , he intended to cha- racterize King William , and Lewis the Fourteenth under Bajazet . The virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been ...
... elegant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in which , under the name of Tamerlane , he intended to cha- racterize King William , and Lewis the Fourteenth under Bajazet . The virtues of Tamerlane seem to have been ...
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