The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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Pàgina 2
... confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had ...
... confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had ...
Pàgina 4
... confidered , cannot invade ; but privation likewise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that ...
... confidered , cannot invade ; but privation likewise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that ...
Pàgina 7
... confidered , that where there is no dif- ficulty there is no praise . There feems to be in the conduct of Sir Robert Howard and Dryden towards each other , some- thing that is not now eafily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication ...
... confidered , that where there is no dif- ficulty there is no praise . There feems to be in the conduct of Sir Robert Howard and Dryden towards each other , some- thing that is not now eafily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication ...
Pàgina 18
... confidered that pleasure was not " the only end of poefy , and that even the inftruc- ❝tions of morality were not so wholly the business " of a poet , as that precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that ...
... confidered that pleasure was not " the only end of poefy , and that even the inftruc- ❝tions of morality were not so wholly the business " of a poet , as that precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that ...
Pàgina 32
... confidered as a very diverting entertainment . Cleomenes is a tragedy , only remarkable as it occafioned an incident related in the Guardian , and allufively mentioned by Dryden in his preface . As he came out from the representation ...
... confidered as a very diverting entertainment . Cleomenes is a tragedy , only remarkable as it occafioned an incident related in the Guardian , and allufively mentioned by Dryden in his preface . As he came out from the representation ...
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