The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 38
... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his paffage is always on a level , along folid ground , without afperities , without obftruction . This eafy and fafe conveyance ...
... common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations , nor to explore profundities ; his paffage is always on a level , along folid ground , without afperities , without obftruction . This eafy and fafe conveyance ...
Pàgina 43
... common occafions , he habitually affects a ftyle of arrogance , and dictates rather than perfuades . This authoritative and magifterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocula- rity but he apparently ...
... common occafions , he habitually affects a ftyle of arrogance , and dictates rather than perfuades . This authoritative and magifterial language he ex- pected to be received as his peculiar mode of jocula- rity but he apparently ...
Pàgina 44
... common operation . It may be juftly supposed that there was in his con- verfation , what appears fo frequently in his Letters , an affectation of familiarity with the Great , and am- bition of momentary equality fought and enjoyed by ...
... common operation . It may be juftly supposed that there was in his con- verfation , what appears fo frequently in his Letters , an affectation of familiarity with the Great , and am- bition of momentary equality fought and enjoyed by ...
Pàgina 80
... common readers . Euftathius was therefore neceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whose work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been been able ; fome other was therefore to be ...
... common readers . Euftathius was therefore neceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whose work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been been able ; fome other was therefore to be ...
Pàgina 98
... common friend . When Addison's opinion was afked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the beft that had ever been written ; and fometimes faid , that they were both good , but that Tickell had more of " Homer ...
... common friend . When Addison's opinion was afked , he declared the versions to be both good , but Tickell's the beft that had ever been written ; and fometimes faid , that they were both good , but that Tickell had more of " Homer ...
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