The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... pleasure was not the only end of Poesy ; and that even the instructions of mor ality were not so wholly the business of a poet , as that the precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that employment altogether to ...
... pleasure was not the only end of Poesy ; and that even the instructions of mor ality were not so wholly the business of a poet , as that the precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that employment altogether to ...
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... pleasure of discrediting his predecessors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript . He had pro- mised a second dialogue , in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets , who have ...
... pleasure of discrediting his predecessors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long postscript . He had pro- mised a second dialogue , in which he should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets , who have ...
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... pleasure of the exploit ; but it is a huff , and let Abdalla do it if he dare . The people like a headlong torrent go , And every dam they break or overflow . But , unoppos'd they either lose their force , Or wind in volumes to their ...
... pleasure of the exploit ; but it is a huff , and let Abdalla do it if he dare . The people like a headlong torrent go , And every dam they break or overflow . But , unoppos'd they either lose their force , Or wind in volumes to their ...
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... pleasure . The THIS play is addressed to the Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himself , if not a poet , yet a writer of verses , and a critick . In this address Dryden gave the first hints of his intention to write an ...
... pleasure . The THIS play is addressed to the Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himself , if not a poet , yet a writer of verses , and a critick . In this address Dryden gave the first hints of his intention to write an ...
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... pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cow - hides upon his shield as would have furnished half the King's army with shoe - leather.'cbyggt BEING asked whether he had seen ...
... pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cow - hides upon his shield as would have furnished half the King's army with shoe - leather.'cbyggt BEING asked whether he had seen ...
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