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 18
... defign is to recom- mend piety . " I 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 ...
... defign is to recom- mend piety . " I 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 ...
Pàgina 22
... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks , her guns of mighty strength , " Whose low laid mouths each mounting billow laves , " Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length . " She seems a fea - wafp ...
... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks , her guns of mighty strength , " Whose low laid mouths each mounting billow laves , " Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length . " She seems a fea - wafp ...
Pàgina 30
... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays hap- pened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . The defign , " fays he , " you " you know is great , the ftory ...
... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays hap- pened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . The defign , " fays he , " you " you know is great , the ftory ...
Pàgina 36
... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes Bayes probably imitated the dress , and mimicked the ...
... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes Bayes probably imitated the dress , and mimicked the ...
Pàgina 42
... defign of reconciling the nation to the church of Rome became apparent , and the religion of the court gave the only efficacious title to its favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have ...
... defign of reconciling the nation to the church of Rome became apparent , and the religion of the court gave the only efficacious title to its favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have ...
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