The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 16
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank for wit . In this poem he justly censured Dryden's ...
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank for wit . In this poem he justly censured Dryden's ...
Pàgina 24
... discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
... discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
Pàgina 26
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they nei- ther provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the ...
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet , or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they nei- ther provoked him to petulance , nor depressed him to complaint . While the ...
Pàgina 42
... discovering the taste of the public . He was quite right in this , as usual ; the good - nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every aɩt , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the ...
... discovering the taste of the public . He was quite right in this , as usual ; the good - nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every aɩt , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the ...
Pàgina 71
... discovered a resolution of disowning him ; and in a very short time removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his true ...
... discovered a resolution of disowning him ; and in a very short time removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his true ...
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