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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... 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 .
... 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 .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Life of Plutarch he mentions his education in the College with grati- tude ; but in a prologue at Oxford ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Life of Plutarch he mentions his education in the College with grati- tude ; but in a prologue at Oxford ...
Pàgina 7
... thoughts , fo much more to express those " thoughts with elocution . ” It is written in quatrains , or heroick ftanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most ...
... thoughts , fo much more to express those " thoughts with elocution . ” It is written in quatrains , or heroick ftanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most ...
Pàgina 9
... thought " extremely pleafant and furprifing ; and thofe " first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin pro- " verb , were not always the least happy ; and as " his fancy was quick , fo likewise were the pro- " ducts of it remote and ...
... thought " extremely pleafant and furprifing ; and thofe " first thoughts of his , contrary to the Latin pro- " verb , were not always the least happy ; and as " his fancy was quick , fo likewise were the pro- " ducts of it remote and ...
Pàgina 10
... thought , which “ he can 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 ...
... thought , which “ he can 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 ...
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