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
... for the most part , delightful ; they exhibit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and majeftick mad- nefs : fuch as , if it is fometimes defpifed , is often reverenced reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with 18 DRYDEN .
... for the most part , delightful ; they exhibit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and majeftick mad- nefs : fuch as , if it is fometimes defpifed , is often reverenced reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with 18 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 37
... delighted the town , was car ried in triumph to Whitehall , and played by the ladies of the court . Now was the poetical meteor at the highest ; the next moment began its fall . Rochester withdrew his patronage ; feeming re- folved ...
... delighted the town , was car ried in triumph to Whitehall , and played by the ladies of the court . Now was the poetical meteor at the highest ; the next moment began its fall . Rochester withdrew his patronage ; feeming re- folved ...
Pàgina 40
... delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets ; and thinks that curiofity to decypher the names procured readers to the poem . There is no need to enquire why those verses were read , which , to all the at- tractions of ...
... delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets ; and thinks that curiofity to decypher the names procured readers to the poem . There is no need to enquire why those verses were read , which , to all the at- tractions of ...
Pàgina 63
... delighted with the ferti- lity of his invention than mortified by the profti- tution of his judgment . It is indeed not certain , that on these occafions his judgment much rebelled against his intereft . There are minds which easily ...
... delighted with the ferti- lity of his invention than mortified by the profti- tution of his judgment . It is indeed not certain , that on these occafions his judgment much rebelled against his intereft . There are minds which easily ...
Pàgina 74
... delight is mingled with in- ftruction , and where the author proves his right of judgment , by his power of performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly ...
... delight is mingled with in- ftruction , and where the author proves his right of judgment , by his power of performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly ...
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