The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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Pàgina 33
... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed their governor's hands , nor ...
... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed their governor's hands , nor ...
Pàgina 42
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understandings , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between several virtues and ...
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understandings , so the amicable accommodation and alliance between several virtues and ...
Pàgina 44
... expected that I should be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as ...
... expected that I should be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as ...
Pàgina 79
... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young author a rapture of ...
... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , which , though they begin with nonsense and end with dulness , excited in the young author a rapture of ...
Pàgina 86
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of ' Peleus and Thetis ' has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and ...
... expected only in the ornaments and illustrations . His poetical precepts are accompanied with agreeable and instructive notes . The masque of ' Peleus and Thetis ' has here and there a pretty line ; but it is not always melodious , and ...
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