The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 38
... censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are writ- ten with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learn- ing ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the ...
... censure . They have all the same beauties and faults , and nearly in the same proportion . They are writ- ten with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learn- ing ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the ...
Pàgina 45
... censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new ...
... censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new ...
Pàgina 51
... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the ...
... censure . He says of the Supreme Being , Hà sotto i piedi e fato e la natura Ministri humili , e'l moto , e ch'il misura . The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem . In the ...
Pàgina 83
... censure , by inserting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and imputing it to the king ; whom he charges , in his Iconoclastes , with the use of this prayer , as with a heavy crime , in the indecent language with which prosperity had ...
... censure , by inserting a prayer taken from Sidney's Arcadia , and imputing it to the king ; whom he charges , in his Iconoclastes , with the use of this prayer , as with a heavy crime , in the indecent language with which prosperity had ...
Pàgina 84
... censure it , with a little extension of their malice , could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the second , being now sheltered in Holland , employed Salmasius , professor of polite learning at Leyden , to write a ...
... censure it , with a little extension of their malice , could contrive what they wanted to accuse . King Charles the second , being now sheltered in Holland , employed Salmasius , professor of polite learning at Leyden , to write a ...
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