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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... fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account ...
... fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology , will publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account ...
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... fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the pre- fent ...
... fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the pre- fent ...
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... fome duties , or obliging themselves to " be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , 1 be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful ho- mage to his Laura ...
... fome duties , or obliging themselves to " be true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , 1 be- lieve , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful ho- mage to his Laura ...
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... fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate difplay of his own qualifica- tions . The defire of ...
... fome measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate difplay of his own qualifica- tions . The defire of ...
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... fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is the only 66 thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now " abstain from ...
... fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , " is the only 66 thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now " abstain from ...
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