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 3
... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name fhall be Than his own mother - university ; Thebes did his rude unknowing youth ... line , An horrid ftillnefs firft invades the ear , And in that filence we a tempest fear , A 2 for for which he was ...
... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name fhall be Than his own mother - university ; Thebes did his rude unknowing youth ... line , An horrid ftillnefs firft invades the ear , And in that filence we a tempest fear , A 2 for for which he was ...
Pàgina 7
... lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English lan- guage affords . Of this ftanza he mentions the encumbrances , encreased as they were by the ex ...
... lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English lan- guage affords . Of this ftanza he mentions the encumbrances , encreased as they were by the ex ...
Pàgina 11
... battle . " mistaken if nonfenfe is not here pretty thick " fown . Sure the poet writ thefe two lines aboard " fone fmack in a ftorin , and , being fea - fick , 66 I am fpewed " spewed up a good lump of clotted nonfenfe ❝ DRYDEN . II.
... battle . " mistaken if nonfenfe is not here pretty thick " fown . Sure the poet writ thefe two lines aboard " fone fmack in a ftorin , and , being fea - fick , 66 I am fpewed " spewed up a good lump of clotted nonfenfe ❝ DRYDEN . II.
Pàgina 15
... lines a mess of rhiming nonfenfe yield , 66 " A fenfeless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft bear . B 2 With " With noife they move , and from ...
... lines a mess of rhiming nonfenfe yield , 66 " A fenfeless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft bear . B 2 With " With noife they move , and from ...
Pàgina 20
... lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analysing his expreffions , he tries the fame ...
... lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analysing his expreffions , he tries the fame ...
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