The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... dangers , raw to war . O curit effay of arms , difaftrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ; Hard elements of unaufpicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care . DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a ...
... dangers , raw to war . O curit effay of arms , difaftrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ; Hard elements of unaufpicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care . DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a ...
Pàgina 40
... dangerous as thefe , Our courfe by ftars above we cannot know Without the compafs too below . After this fays Bentley * . Who travels in religious jars , Truth mix'd with error , fhade with rays , Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars , In ...
... dangerous as thefe , Our courfe by ftars above we cannot know Without the compafs too below . After this fays Bentley * . Who travels in religious jars , Truth mix'd with error , fhade with rays , Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars , In ...
Pàgina 57
... danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very juftly conceived and ftrongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis fuperior to the Jerufalem of Taffa , " which , " fays he , " the ...
... danger or delight . And the different beauties of the lofty Merah and the gentle Michol are very juftly conceived and ftrongly painted . Rymer has declared the Davideis fuperior to the Jerufalem of Taffa , " which , " fays he , " the ...
Pàgina 69
... royal family re- quired him to engage in more dangerous employ- ments . He was entrusted by the queen with a meffage to the king ; and , by whatever means , fo far : far foftened the ferocity of Hugh Peters , that by DEN HA M. 69.
... royal family re- quired him to engage in more dangerous employ- ments . He was entrusted by the queen with a meffage to the king ; and , by whatever means , fo far : far foftened the ferocity of Hugh Peters , that by DEN HA M. 69.
Pàgina 77
... danger I declin'd , " Did and deferv'd no lefs , my fate to find . " From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their fenfe in couplets ; which has perhaps been with ...
... danger I declin'd , " Did and deferv'd no lefs , my fate to find . " From this kind of concatenated metre he after- wards refrained , and taught his followers the art of concluding their fenfe in couplets ; which has perhaps been with ...
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