The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... expected ; but he finds . another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
... expected ; but he finds . another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
Pàgina 22
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : — " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between se- veral virtues ...
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : — " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between se- veral virtues ...
Pàgina 53
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of Peleus and Thetis has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and the ...
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of Peleus and Thetis has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and the ...
Pàgina 83
... expected on the stage ; and he was so much ashamed of having been reduced to appear as a player , that he always blotted out his name from the list , when a copy of his tragedy was to be shewn to his friends . In the publication of his ...
... expected on the stage ; and he was so much ashamed of having been reduced to appear as a player , that he always blotted out his name from the list , when a copy of his tragedy was to be shewn to his friends . In the publication of his ...
Pàgina 101
... expected that he should have gained considerable advantage ; nor can it , without some degree of indignation and concern , be told , that he sold the copy for ten guineas , of which he afterwards re- turned two , that the last two ...
... expected that he should have gained considerable advantage ; nor can it , without some degree of indignation and concern , be told , that he sold the copy for ten guineas , of which he afterwards re- turned two , that the last two ...
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