The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 19
... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fafhions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphyfical ...
... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fafhions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century , appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphyfical ...
Pàgina 26
... fubject they t ' another move ; My members then , the father members were From whence thefe take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
... fubject they t ' another move ; My members then , the father members were From whence thefe take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
Pàgina 37
... fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's bufinefs ; when the ...
... fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's bufinefs ; when the ...
Pàgina 50
... fubject , feems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require ftill more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters name ; and England , during the ...
... fubject , feems to have been carried , by a kind of deftiny , to the light and the familiar , or to conceits which require ftill more ignoble epithets . A flaughter in the Red Sea new dies the waters name ; and England , during the ...
Pàgina 54
... fubject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity ...
... fubject , and partly in the performance of the work . Sacred History has been always read with fub- miffive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity ...
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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