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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... death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox , and ...
... death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox , and ...
Pàgina 3
... death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroic Stanzas on the late Lord Protec tor ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise ...
... death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroic Stanzas on the late Lord Protec tor ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise ...
Pàgina 4
... Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any difficulty of af- figning to Death a dart and the power of ftriking ? In fettling the order of his works , there is fome difficulty ; for , even when they are important enough to be ...
... Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any difficulty of af- figning to Death a dart and the power of ftriking ? In fettling the order of his works , there is fome difficulty ; for , even when they are important enough to be ...
Pàgina 12
... death , Than the infection that attends that breath . " That attends that breath . - The poet is at breath again ; breath can never ' scape him ; and here he brings in a breath that must be infectious with pro- 66 nouncing a sentence ...
... death , Than the infection that attends that breath . " That attends that breath . - The poet is at breath again ; breath can never ' scape him ; and here he brings in a breath that must be infectious with pro- 66 nouncing a sentence ...
Pàgina 13
... death their quarrel ends , Whom living we made foes , dead we'll make friends . " If this be not a very liberal mefs , I will refer 66 myself to the ftomach of any moderate guest . " And a rare mefs it is , far excelling any Westmin ...
... death their quarrel ends , Whom living we made foes , dead we'll make friends . " If this be not a very liberal mefs , I will refer 66 myself to the ftomach of any moderate guest . " And a rare mefs it is , far excelling any Westmin ...
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