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 29
... language of religion . The preface contains an apology for heroick verfe , and poetick licence ; by which is meant not any liberty taken in contracting or extending words , but the use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon ...
... language of religion . The preface contains an apology for heroick verfe , and poetick licence ; by which is meant not any liberty taken in contracting or extending words , but the use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon ...
Pàgina 34
... language , and which he , who had confidered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to diftribute copioufly as occafions arofe . By these differtations the publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift ...
... language , and which he , who had confidered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to diftribute copioufly as occafions arofe . By these differtations the publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift ...
Pàgina 35
... language , and fuch copiousness of sentiment , as , fince the time of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has pofsessed . He did not enjoy his reputation , however great , nor his profits however small , without moleftation . He had ...
... language , and fuch copiousness of sentiment , as , fince the time of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has pofsessed . He did not enjoy his reputation , however great , nor his profits however small , without moleftation . He had ...
Pàgina 51
... language , and might perhaps have contributed by pleasing inftruction to rectify our opinions , and purify our manners . What he required as the indifpenfable condition of fuch an undertaking a publick ftipend , was not likely in thofe ...
... language , and might perhaps have contributed by pleasing inftruction to rectify our opinions , and purify our manners . What he required as the indifpenfable condition of fuch an undertaking a publick ftipend , was not likely in thofe ...
Pàgina 61
... language ; his intellectual treasures were great , though they were locked up from his own ufe . His thoughts , when he wrote , flowed in upon him fo faft , that his only care was which to chufe , and which to reject . Such rapidity of ...
... language ; his intellectual treasures were great , though they were locked up from his own ufe . His thoughts , when he wrote , flowed in upon him fo faft , that his only care was which to chufe , and which to reject . Such rapidity of ...
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