The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 6
... verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manufcripts to Swift , for whom he ...
... verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his manufcripts to Swift , for whom he ...
Pàgina 33
... verfes he willingly gave copies , and is fuppofed to have felt no difcontent when he saw them printed . His favourite maxim " Vive la bagatelle : " he thought trifles a ne- ceffary part of life , and perhaps found them ne- ceffary to ...
... verfes he willingly gave copies , and is fuppofed to have felt no difcontent when he saw them printed . His favourite maxim " Vive la bagatelle : " he thought trifles a ne- ceffary part of life , and perhaps found them ne- ceffary to ...
Pàgina 48
... verfes exem- plify his own definition of a good style , they confift of " proper words in proper places . " To divide this collection into claffes , and fhew how fome pieces are grofs , and fome are trifling , would be to tell the ...
... verfes exem- plify his own definition of a good style , they confift of " proper words in proper places . " To divide this collection into claffes , and fhew how fome pieces are grofs , and fome are trifling , would be to tell the ...
Pàgina 56
... verfes of his own intermixed , which he perfuaded his fchool - fellows to act , with the addition of his master's gardener , who perfonated Ajax . At the two last schools he used to represent himself as having loft part of what Taverner ...
... verfes of his own intermixed , which he perfuaded his fchool - fellows to act , with the addition of his master's gardener , who perfonated Ajax . At the two last schools he used to represent himself as having loft part of what Taverner ...
Pàgina 68
... verfes on the " Unfortunate Lady " were written about the time when his " Effay " was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have fought with fruit- lefs enquiry * . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr. Ruff ...
... verfes on the " Unfortunate Lady " were written about the time when his " Effay " was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have fought with fruit- lefs enquiry * . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr. Ruff ...
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