The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it pro- cured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it pro- cured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
Pàgina 47
... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with closeness . This is a skill which Pope might have condescended ...
... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with closeness . This is a skill which Pope might have condescended ...
Pàgina 74
... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera , a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera , a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
Pàgina 75
... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest blacksmith might have ...
... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest blacksmith might have ...
Pàgina 85
... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book with- out any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not show him to have had much comprehension from ...
... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book with- out any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not show him to have had much comprehension from ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
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