The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... pieces . 66 But the pleasure of popularity was foon interrupted by domeftick mifery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and ...
... pieces . 66 But the pleasure of popularity was foon interrupted by domeftick mifery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and ...
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... pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of dic- tion , fuch as he afterwards never poffeffed , or never exerted . It is of a mode fo diftinct and peculiar , that it must be ...
... pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of dic- tion , fuch as he afterwards never poffeffed , or never exerted . It is of a mode fo diftinct and peculiar , that it must be ...
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... pieces are grofs , and fome are trifling , would be to tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote not often to his judg- ment , but his humour . It was faid ...
... pieces are grofs , and fome are trifling , would be to tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote not often to his judg- ment , but his humour . It was faid ...
Pàgina 50
... pieces were inferted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the fuccefs of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a verfion of the " Odyffey , " Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his affistance ...
... pieces were inferted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the fuccefs of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a verfion of the " Odyffey , " Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his affistance ...
Pàgina 58
... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He fometimes imitated the English poets , and profeffed to have written at fourteen his poem upon " Silence , " after Rochefter's " Nothing . " He had now formed his verfification , and the ...
... pieces , which he afterwards printed . He fometimes imitated the English poets , and profeffed to have written at fourteen his poem upon " Silence , " after Rochefter's " Nothing . " He had now formed his verfification , and the ...
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