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 16
... verfes roll , " As if that rhyme and bombaft lent a foul : " And with that foul they seem taught duty too , " To huffing words does humble nonsense bow , " As if it would thy worthlefs worth enhance , " To th ' lowest rank of fops thy ...
... verfes roll , " As if that rhyme and bombaft lent a foul : " And with that foul they seem taught duty too , " To huffing words does humble nonsense bow , " As if it would thy worthlefs worth enhance , " To th ' lowest rank of fops thy ...
Pàgina 34
... be easily satisfied . His prologues had such reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not in- troduce troduce it . The price of a prologue was two 34 DRYDEN .
... be easily satisfied . His prologues had such reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not in- troduce troduce it . The price of a prologue was two 34 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 41
... verfes a- gainft him the fecond line . Azaria and Hubai was , as Wood fays , imputed to him , though it is fomewhat unlikely that he should write twice on the fame occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot remove , for want of a ...
... verfes a- gainft him the fecond line . Azaria and Hubai was , as Wood fays , imputed to him , though it is fomewhat unlikely that he should write twice on the fame occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot remove , for want of a ...
Pàgina 69
... verfes , to be delivered by me to the faid Ja- " cob Tonfon whereof I have already delivered to " him about feven thoufand five hundred , more or " lefs ; he the faid Jacob Tonfon being obliged to " make up the forefaid fum of two ...
... verfes , to be delivered by me to the faid Ja- " cob Tonfon whereof I have already delivered to " him about feven thoufand five hundred , more or " lefs ; he the faid Jacob Tonfon being obliged to " make up the forefaid fum of two ...
Pàgina 83
... verfes with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to fhew that he understood his author , with fo little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his num- bers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ...
... verfes with the original . Holyday had nothing in view but to fhew that he understood his author , with fo little regard to the grandeur of his diction , or the volubility of his num- bers , that his metres can hardly be called verses ...
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