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
... 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 his poet has made of the puftules first rofe- buds , and ...
... 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 his poet has made of the puftules first rofe- buds , and ...
Pàgina 3
... fuch numbers , that it produced neither hatred nor difgrace ; if he changed , he changed with the nation . It was however , not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond ...
... fuch numbers , that it produced neither hatred nor difgrace ; if he changed , he changed with the nation . It was however , not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond ...
Pàgina 9
... fuch as " could not easily enter into any other man . ” The effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Sicofax ; and a woman , who , in the ...
... fuch as " could not easily enter into any other man . ” The effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Sicofax ; and a woman , who , in the ...
Pàgina 10
... fuch criticifm as malignant impatience could pour out in hafte . Of Settle he gives this character . " He's an " animal of a moft deplored understanding , with- " out conversation . His being is in a twilight of " fenfe , and some ...
... fuch criticifm as malignant impatience could pour out in hafte . Of Settle he gives this character . " He's an " animal of a moft deplored understanding , with- " out conversation . His being is in a twilight of " fenfe , and some ...
Pàgina 12
... fuch clog- ❝ging , thick , indigeftible stuff . But this is but a " tafte to stay the ftomach ; we shall have a more " plentiful mefs presently . " Now to dish up the poet's broth , that I pro- " mised : For when we're dead , and our ...
... fuch clog- ❝ging , thick , indigeftible stuff . But this is but a " tafte to stay the ftomach ; we shall have a more " plentiful mefs presently . " Now to dish up the poet's broth , that I pro- " mised : For when we're dead , and our ...
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