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 xxiv
... Remarks on Rymer have been some- where printed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unfore- seen , I must be supposed to have ...
... Remarks on Rymer have been some- where printed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unfore- seen , I must be supposed to have ...
Pàgina 17
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Pàgina 20
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been ne- ver ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been ne- ver ...
Pàgina 23
... remarks are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected in- stances of the modes of writing by which this spe- cies of poets ( for poets they were called by them- selves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
... remarks are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected in- stances of the modes of writing by which this spe- cies of poets ( for poets they were called by them- selves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
Pàgina 34
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for❜t was , Like ...
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for❜t was , Like ...
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