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 29
... use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon which he gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpassed : " I was " induced to it in my own defence , many hun- " dred copies of it being dispersed abroad with ...
... use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon which he gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpassed : " I was " induced to it in my own defence , many hun- " dred copies of it being dispersed abroad with ...
Pàgina 44
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however feems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however feems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
Pàgina 71
... use of Alexander's Feaft . In those days the economy of government was yet unsettled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain : of this disorder there is reason to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the ...
... use of Alexander's Feaft . In those days the economy of government was yet unsettled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain : of this disorder there is reason to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the ...
Pàgina 82
... use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too re- mote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those founds which we hear on fmall or on coarfe oc- cafions , we do not eafily ...
... use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too re- mote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those founds which we hear on fmall or on coarfe oc- cafions , we do not eafily ...
Pàgina 90
... is limited where you are join'd , And beyond that no farther heaven can find . So well your virtues do with his agree , That , though your orbs of different greatness be , Ye Yet both are for each other's use dispof'd , His 90 DRYDEN .
... is limited where you are join'd , And beyond that no farther heaven can find . So well your virtues do with his agree , That , though your orbs of different greatness be , Ye Yet both are for each other's use dispof'd , His 90 DRYDEN .
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