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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... gives reason to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and con- fequently left him to the care of his mother , whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a ...
... gives reason to fufpect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and con- fequently left him to the care of his mother , whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a ...
Pàgina 9
... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of feeking fates in books and fays , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewith Rabbins , and even the early Chriftians the latter taking the New Teftament for their oracle . H. B 5 i ...
... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of feeking fates in books and fays , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewith Rabbins , and even the early Chriftians the latter taking the New Teftament for their oracle . H. B 5 i ...
Pàgina 11
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another may not promife to aid him in any injurious act , because po power ...
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another may not promife to aid him in any injurious act , because po power ...
Pàgina 18
... give fome ac- count . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very ...
... give fome ac- count . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very ...
Pàgina 22
... give luftre to works which have more propriety , though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of a ...
... give luftre to works which have more propriety , though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of a ...
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