The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct A 3 correct ...
... discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and , if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct A 3 correct ...
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... discovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleafed as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps ...
... discovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleafed as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps ...
Pàgina 32
... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . THEIR thoughts and expreffions were fometimes grofsly abfurd , and fuch as no figures or licence can reconcile to the ...
... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to share . DONNE . THEIR thoughts and expreffions were fometimes grofsly abfurd , and fuch as no figures or licence can reconcile to the ...
Pàgina 74
... discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped hap- pily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James the Duke of York from London ...
... discovered by the adverse party's knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand , he escaped hap- pily both for himself and his friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James the Duke of York from London ...
Pàgina 79
... discovered by a perufal of our earlier verfions ; fome of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a miftaken ambition of exactnefs , degraded at once their ...
... discovered by a perufal of our earlier verfions ; fome of them are the works of men well qualified , not only by critical knowledge , but by poetical genius , who yet , by a miftaken ambition of exactnefs , degraded at once their ...
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Æneid againſt anſwer appears becauſe cenfured Charles Dryden compofition confidered converfation Cowley criticifm defign defire delight diſcovered Donne Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffions fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure genius himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf John Dryden juft King labour laft leaft learning leaſt lefs lines Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reafon reft Regifter reprefented rhyme ſeems thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion tragedy tranflation univerfity uſed verfe verfification verſes Virgil Waller whofe write written