The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 37
... Subject to change , will fcarce be a type of this ; Now when the client , whofe laft hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ... subjects often unne- ceffarily and unpoetically fubtle ; yet , where fcho- laftick fpeculation can be properly ...
... Subject to change , will fcarce be a type of this ; Now when the client , whofe laft hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ... subjects often unne- ceffarily and unpoetically fubtle ; yet , where fcho- laftick fpeculation can be properly ...
Pàgina 46
... subject for his tafk , we fome- times efteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always admire as ingenious , and always con- demn as unnatural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be confidered ; a fpecies of compofition ...
... subject for his tafk , we fome- times efteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always admire as ingenious , and always con- demn as unnatural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be confidered ; a fpecies of compofition ...
Pàgina 52
... subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the cri- tick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verfe which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to profe ...
... subjects ; and it will not be easy to reconcile the poet with the cri- tick , or to conceive how that can be the highest kind of writing in verfe which , according to Sprat , is chiefly to be preferred for its near affinity to profe ...
Pàgina 62
... subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copioufness of knowledge , that fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind ; yet it is not likely that he always rejected a commodious idea merely because another had ...
... subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copioufness of knowledge , that fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind ; yet it is not likely that he always rejected a commodious idea merely because another had ...
Pàgina 181
... subject is able to support itself . Blank verfe makes fome approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the eafi- ness of prose , nor the melody of numbers , and there- fore tires by long continuance . Of the ...
... subject is able to support itself . Blank verfe makes fome approach to that which is called the lapidary style ; has neither the eafi- ness of prose , nor the melody of numbers , and there- fore tires by long continuance . Of the ...
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