The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of fourteen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not seek an apology in falsehood ; but he that could bear to ...
... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of fourteen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not seek an apology in falsehood ; but he that could bear to ...
Pàgina 51
... lived in familiarity with the highest persons of his time . It is related by Carte of the Duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden consorted : who they were , Carte has not told , but ...
... lived in familiarity with the highest persons of his time . It is related by Carte of the Duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden consorted : who they were , Carte has not told , but ...
Pàgina 105
... lived , by the use of French words , which had then crept into conversation ; such as fraicheur for coolness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
... lived , by the use of French words , which had then crept into conversation ; such as fraicheur for coolness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
Pàgina 119
... lived for though nature , bas he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the same ; yet the climate , the age , the disposition of the people , to whom a poet writes , may be so different , that what pleas ed the Greeks ...
... lived for though nature , bas he objects , is the same in all places , and reason too the same ; yet the climate , the age , the disposition of the people , to whom a poet writes , may be so different , that what pleas ed the Greeks ...
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... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to say his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was surely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . IN 1683 , being ...
... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to say his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was surely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . IN 1683 , being ...
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