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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... never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made ...
... never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made ...
Pàgina 9
... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this time , in 1673 , Dryden feems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the fuccefs of the Emprefs of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this time , in 1673 , Dryden feems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the fuccefs of the Emprefs of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
Pàgina 10
... never fashion into wit or English . His 46 ftyle is boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme " incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually “ harfh and ill - founding . The little talent which " he has , is fancy . He fometimes ...
... never fashion into wit or English . His 46 ftyle is boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme " incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually “ harfh and ill - founding . The little talent which " he has , is fancy . He fometimes ...
Pàgina 12
... never been thought worthy of republication , and is not eafily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . 66 66 Whene'er fhe bleeds , He no feverer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the fentence of her ...
... never been thought worthy of republication , and is not eafily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . 66 66 Whene'er fhe bleeds , He no feverer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the fentence of her ...
Pàgina 13
... porridge , ' tis a receipt , ' tis a 66 pig with a pudding in the belly , ' tis I know not " what : for certainly , never any one that pretend- VOL . II . B ed " ed to write fenfe , had the impudence before DRYDEN . 13.
... porridge , ' tis a receipt , ' tis a 66 pig with a pudding in the belly , ' tis I know not " what : for certainly , never any one that pretend- VOL . II . B ed " ed to write fenfe , had the impudence before DRYDEN . 13.
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