The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be ob- served without wonder , that a mind , so vigorous and fer- tile in dramatic compositions , should , on any other occa- sion , discover nothing but impotence and ...
... longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be ob- served without wonder , that a mind , so vigorous and fer- tile in dramatic compositions , should , on any other occa- sion , discover nothing but impotence and ...
Pàgina 13
... longer time than it is usual to spend at the university ; and which he seems to have passed with very little attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often ...
... longer time than it is usual to spend at the university ; and which he seems to have passed with very little attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often ...
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... his powers ; though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was bis reason I know not ; Dryden then was no longer in his way . His head still teemed with heroic poetry ; and ( 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... his powers ; though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was bis reason I know not ; Dryden then was no longer in his way . His head still teemed with heroic poetry ; and ( 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 24
... longer . I know not whether I can enumerate all the treatises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has ...
... longer . I know not whether I can enumerate all the treatises by which he has endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has ...
Pàgina 53
... longer . The essay on unnatural flights in poetry is not inelegant nor injudicious , and has something of vigour beyond most of his other performances : his precepts are just , and his cautions proper ; they are indeed not new , but ...
... longer . The essay on unnatural flights in poetry is not inelegant nor injudicious , and has something of vigour beyond most of his other performances : his precepts are just , and his cautions proper ; they are indeed not new , but ...
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