The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... thing either natur- ally or justly . ' THIS is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : He has a heavy hand at fools , and a great felicity in writing nonsense for them ...
... thing either natur- ally or justly . ' THIS is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : He has a heavy hand at fools , and a great felicity in writing nonsense for them ...
Pàgina 10
... thing the better for being back- ed , or having a load upon his back . So that here is gilding by conforming , smiling , lightning , backing , and thundering . The whole is as if I should say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles ...
... thing the better for being back- ed , or having a load upon his back . So that here is gilding by conforming , smiling , lightning , backing , and thundering . The whole is as if I should say thus : I will make my counterfeit smiles ...
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... thing , makes his reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure , is no high commendation . To expose Dry- den's method of analysing his expressions , he tries the e same experiment upon the same description ...
... thing , makes his reprisals upon his enemy . To say that his answer is equal to the censure , is no high commendation . To expose Dry- den's method of analysing his expressions , he tries the e same experiment upon the same description ...
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... things to what they are compared in the world . I'll venture to start a simile in his Annus Mirabilis : he gives this poetical description of the ship called the London : The goodly London in her gallant trim , The Phoenix - daughter of ...
... things to what they are compared in the world . I'll venture to start a simile in his Annus Mirabilis : he gives this poetical description of the ship called the London : The goodly London in her gallant trim , The Phoenix - daughter of ...
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... thing like it , ' tis a wonder if it be not borrowed . As here , for example of , I find this fanciful thought in his Ann . Mirab . ⚫ Old father Thames rais'd up his reverend head ; But fear'd the fate of Simoeis would return ; Deep in ...
... thing like it , ' tis a wonder if it be not borrowed . As here , for example of , I find this fanciful thought in his Ann . Mirab . ⚫ Old father Thames rais'd up his reverend head ; But fear'd the fate of Simoeis would return ; Deep in ...
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