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
... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation ...
... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation ...
Pàgina 5
... performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are ...
... performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are ...
Pàgina 27
... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated ...
... performance , written in the time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated ...
Pàgina 32
... performances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many charac- ters and many incidents ; and though it is not without fallies of frantick dignity , and more noise than meaning , yet as it makes approaches to the poffibilities of ...
... performances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many charac- ters and many incidents ; and though it is not without fallies of frantick dignity , and more noise than meaning , yet as it makes approaches to the poffibilities of ...
Pàgina 35
... performance , which , though all Lang- baine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness of language , and fuch copiousness of sentiment , as , fince the time of Lopez de Vega ...
... performance , which , though all Lang- baine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness of language , and fuch copiousness of sentiment , as , fince the time of Lopez de Vega ...
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