The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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Pàgina 159
... imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published the City Mouse and Country Mouse , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and * He was admitted to his Bachelor's degree in 1686 ; and to his Master's , by ...
... imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published the City Mouse and Country Mouse , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and * He was admitted to his Bachelor's degree in 1686 ; and to his Master's , by ...
Pàgina 208
... imagined himself to have con- tributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he be- lieved , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own ...
... imagined himself to have con- tributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he be- lieved , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own ...
Pàgina 217
... imagined , and better ex- pressed , than could be expected from the common tenour of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetick madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable ...
... imagined , and better ex- pressed , than could be expected from the common tenour of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetick madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable ...
Pàgina 224
... imagined of so long a work , with such felicity as made care less necessary . Its two constituent parts are ratiocination and description . To reason in verse is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but ...
... imagined of so long a work , with such felicity as made care less necessary . Its two constituent parts are ratiocination and description . To reason in verse is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but ...
Pàgina 266
... attempted in some sort to rival him , and has written a Hymn to Darkness , evidently as a counterpart to Cowley's Hymn to Light . This hymn seems to be his best performance , 1 and is , for the most part , imagined with 266 YALDEN .
... attempted in some sort to rival him , and has written a Hymn to Darkness , evidently as a counterpart to Cowley's Hymn to Light . This hymn seems to be his best performance , 1 and is , for the most part , imagined with 266 YALDEN .
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