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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... 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 the best authority for ...
... 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 the best authority for ...
Pàgina 15
... and reprefented to him the " true delights of folitary ftudies , of temperate 66 pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the " malice and flatteries of fortune . " So So differently are things feen and fo differently are they COWLE Y. 15.
... and reprefented to him the " true delights of folitary ftudies , of temperate 66 pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the " malice and flatteries of fortune . " So So differently are things feen and fo differently are they COWLE Y. 15.
Pàgina 18
... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has beep at one time too much praifed , and too much ne- glected at another , Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has beep at one time too much praifed , and too much ne- glected at another , Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
Pàgina 20
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
Pàgina 41
... pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greateft in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mif- trefs , of ...
... pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power feems to have been greateft in the familiar and the feftive . The next clafs of his poems is called The Mif- trefs , of ...
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