The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 9
... poetry , the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could pre- fer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : Almeria . It was a fancied noise ; for all is hush'd . Leonora . It bore the accent of a human voice . Almeria . It was ...
... poetry , the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could pre- fer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : Almeria . It was a fancied noise ; for all is hush'd . Leonora . It bore the accent of a human voice . Almeria . It was ...
Pàgina 14
... poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He ... poetical trade in a joint - stock , would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an un- licensed adventurer ...
... poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He ... poetical trade in a joint - stock , would certainly do what they could to sink and ruin an un- licensed adventurer ...
Pàgina 46
... poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility , that we can never support its representation through a long work . A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats , and ...
... poetical Arcadia so remote from known reality and speculative possibility , that we can never support its representation through a long work . A pastoral of a hundred lines may be endured ; but who will hear of sheep and goats , and ...
Pàgina 47
... poetical powers , and addressed the new monarch in three short pieces , of which the first is profane , and the two others such as a boy might be ex- pected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to ...
... poetical powers , and addressed the new monarch in three short pieces , of which the first is profane , and the two others such as a boy might be ex- pected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to ...
Pàgina 52
... poetical labours . He died in Hanover - square , Jan. 30 , 1735 , having a few days before buried his wife , the lady Anne Villiers , widow to mr . Thynne , by whom he had four daughters , but no son . Writers commonly derive their ...
... poetical labours . He died in Hanover - square , Jan. 30 , 1735 , having a few days before buried his wife , the lady Anne Villiers , widow to mr . Thynne , by whom he had four daughters , but no son . Writers commonly derive their ...
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