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
... author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew DRYDEN .
... author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew DRYDEN .
Pàgina 19
... reason- able defire . In the firft Letter his obfervation is only gene- ral : " You do live , " fays he , " in as much igno- rance and darkness as you did in the womb : your writings are like a Jack - of - all trades shop ; 66 66 " they ...
... reason- able defire . In the firft Letter his obfervation is only gene- ral : " You do live , " fays he , " in as much igno- rance and darkness as you did in the womb : your writings are like a Jack - of - all trades shop ; 66 66 " they ...
Pàgina 23
... reason I can " guefs , why it feem'd a wafp . But , because we " will allow him all we can to help out , let it be a " phenix fea wafp , and the rarity of fuch an ani- " mal may do much towards the heightening " the fancy . " It had ...
... reason I can " guefs , why it feem'd a wafp . But , because we " will allow him all we can to help out , let it be a " phenix fea wafp , and the rarity of fuch an ani- " mal may do much towards the heightening " the fancy . " It had ...
Pàgina 33
... reason to be ashamed . This play appeared in 1694. It is said to have been unfuccefsful . The catastrophe , proceeding merely from a change of mind , is confeffed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick ...
... reason to be ashamed . This play appeared in 1694. It is said to have been unfuccefsful . The catastrophe , proceeding merely from a change of mind , is confeffed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick ...
Pàgina 37
... vexing him , which his frequent bursts of refentment give reason to fufpect . He is al- ways angry at some past , or afraid of some future VOL . II . cenfare D cenfure ; but he leffens the fmart of his wounds DRYDEN . 37.
... vexing him , which his frequent bursts of refentment give reason to fufpect . He is al- ways angry at some past , or afraid of some future VOL . II . cenfare D cenfure ; but he leffens the fmart of his wounds DRYDEN . 37.
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