The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... gives this character : He's an animal of a most deplored understanding , without reading and conversation . His being is in a twilight of sense , and some glimmering of thought which he can never fashion into wit or English . His style ...
... gives this character : He's an animal of a most deplored understanding , without reading and conversation . His being is in a twilight of sense , and some glimmering of thought which he can never fashion into wit or English . His style ...
Pàgina 18
... gives this poetical description of the ship called the London : The goodly London in her gallant trim , The Phoenix - daughter of the vanquisht old , Like a rich bride does on the ocean swim , And on her shadow rides in floating gold ...
... gives this poetical description of the ship called the London : The goodly London in her gallant trim , The Phoenix - daughter of the vanquisht old , Like a rich bride does on the ocean swim , And on her shadow rides in floating gold ...
Pàgina 19
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you is the alternative . Rather than take your life , I will not live . OBSERVE how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian canting words as ...
... give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . To die or kill you is the alternative . Rather than take your life , I will not live . OBSERVE how prettily our author chops logick in heroick verse . Three such fustian canting words as ...
Pàgina 20
... give the blow . But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . Now where that not I believe & 201 to sigmays and think that allor's fate is fixt , I can can and think that all ...
... give the blow . But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . Now where that not I believe & 201 to sigmays and think that allor's fate is fixt , I can can and think that all ...
Pàgina 24
... gives for printing what was never acted cannot be overpassed : I was induced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being dispersed abroad without my knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became ...
... gives for printing what was never acted cannot be overpassed : I was induced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being dispersed abroad without my knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became ...
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