The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiii
... lines : " How to all principles untrue , Not fix'd to old friends nor to new , He damns the pension which he takes , And loves the Stuart he forsakes . " In 1763 , Mr. Boswell , from whose account the DR . JOHNSON . Xili.
... lines : " How to all principles untrue , Not fix'd to old friends nor to new , He damns the pension which he takes , And loves the Stuart he forsakes . " In 1763 , Mr. Boswell , from whose account the DR . JOHNSON . Xili.
Pàgina 22
... lines than in the cast of his senti- ments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
... lines than in the cast of his senti- ments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling ...
Pàgina 23
... lines upon Hobson the carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more music . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remain- ed chiefly ...
... lines upon Hobson the carrier . Cowley adopted it , and excelled his predecessors , having as much sentiment and more music . Suckling neither improved versification , nor abounded in conceits . The fashionable style remain- ed chiefly ...
Pàgina 24
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scho- lastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
... lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scho- lastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , not past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff ...
Pàgina 27
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay A Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
... lines are not easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball , A workman , that hath copies by , can lay A Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth ...
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