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
... fhew his malice to the parfons . པ 66 The two parts of the Conquest of Granada are written with a feeming determination to glut the public with dramatick wonders ; to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredible ...
... fhew his malice to the parfons . པ 66 The two parts of the Conquest of Granada are written with a feeming determination to glut the public with dramatick wonders ; to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredible ...
Pàgina 20
... fhew , that by ftudied misconstruction every thing may be equally reprefented as ridiculous . After fo much of Dryden's elegant animadverfions , justice requires that fomething of Settle's should be exhibited . exhibited . The following ...
... fhew , that by ftudied misconstruction every thing may be equally reprefented as ridiculous . After fo much of Dryden's elegant animadverfions , justice requires that fomething of Settle's should be exhibited . exhibited . The following ...
Pàgina 36
... fhew how rafhly fatire is applied . It is faid that this farce was originally intended against Davenant , who in the first draught was characterised by the name of Bilboa . Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . venant . There ...
... fhew how rafhly fatire is applied . It is faid that this farce was originally intended against Davenant , who in the first draught was characterised by the name of Bilboa . Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . venant . There ...
Pàgina 43
... fhew it in its faireft form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance fufficiently attractive . It is natural to hope that a comprehenfive is likewise an elevated foul , and that whoever is wife is also honeft . I ...
... fhew it in its faireft form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance fufficiently attractive . It is natural to hope that a comprehenfive is likewise an elevated foul , and that whoever is wife is also honeft . I ...
Pàgina 83
... fhew that he understood his author , with fo little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his num- bers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ; they cannot be read without reluctance , nor will the labour ...
... fhew that he understood his author , with fo little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his num- bers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ; they cannot be read without reluctance , nor will the labour ...
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