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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... learning and elocution , he " will never be able to exprefs any thing either " naturally or juftly ! ” This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails most over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a ...
... learning and elocution , he " will never be able to exprefs any thing either " naturally or juftly ! ” This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails most over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a ...
Pàgina 23
... learning , " and all comes into his play . " " Twould have done well too , if he could " have met with a rant or two , worth the obfer- " vation : fuch as , 66 66 " Move fwiftly , Sun , and fly a lover's pace , " Leave months and weeks ...
... learning , " and all comes into his play . " " Twould have done well too , if he could " have met with a rant or two , worth the obfer- " vation : fuch as , 66 66 " Move fwiftly , Sun , and fly a lover's pace , " Leave months and weeks ...
Pàgina 34
... learning then almoft new in the English 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 ...
... learning then almoft new in the English 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 ...
Pàgina 73
... Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of fome- thing which we have beftowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rife from the field which it re- Freshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
... Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of fome- thing which we have beftowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rife from the field which it re- Freshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
Pàgina 79
... learning but when he mentions books ; and to him may be transferred the praise which he gives his mafter Charles . His converfation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were fuch , dead authors could not give ...
... learning but when he mentions books ; and to him may be transferred the praise which he gives his mafter Charles . His converfation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were fuch , dead authors could not give ...
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