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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... defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as ...
... defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as ...
Pàgina 2
... defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained ...
... defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci- dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained ...
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... defire of pleafing has in different men . produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
... defire of pleafing has in different men . produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reafonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
Pàgina 10
... defire had been for fome days paft , and did ftill 64 very vehemently continue , to retire himself to " fome of the American plantations , and to for- " fake this world for ever . " From the obloquy which the appearance of fub- miffion ...
... defire had been for fome days paft , and did ftill 64 very vehemently continue , to retire himself to " fome of the American plantations , and to for- " fake this world for ever . " From the obloquy which the appearance of fub- miffion ...
Pàgina 15
... defire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " fays the morofe Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him " which he expected , while others for their money " carried away most places , he retired difcontented into ...
... defire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " fays the morofe Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him " which he expected , while others for their money " carried away most places , he retired difcontented into ...
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