The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate display of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing ...
... fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate display of his own qualifications . The defire of pleafing ...
Pàgina 34
... fure , a lofer be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are fuch mix'd engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We ...
... fure , a lofer be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour fhould co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are fuch mix'd engines found , As hands of double office ; for the ground We ...
Pàgina 35
... fure you can , And let me and my fun beget a man . Thus he represents the meditations of a Lover : Though in thy thoughts fcarce any tracts have been So much as of original fin , Such charms thy beauty wears , as might Defires in dying ...
... fure you can , And let me and my fun beget a man . Thus he represents the meditations of a Lover : Though in thy thoughts fcarce any tracts have been So much as of original fin , Such charms thy beauty wears , as might Defires in dying ...
Pàgina 49
... fure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphyfical race , is that of purfuing his thoughts to the laft ramifications , by which he lofes the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are ...
... fure . The fault of Cowley , and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphyfical race , is that of purfuing his thoughts to the laft ramifications , by which he lofes the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are ...
Pàgina 196
... in the regularity and compo fure of the prefent time , to image the tumult of abfurdity , and clamour of contradiction , which per- plexed doctrine , difordered practice , and disturbed both public plexed 195 BUTLER .
... in the regularity and compo fure of the prefent time , to image the tumult of abfurdity , and clamour of contradiction , which per- plexed doctrine , difordered practice , and disturbed both public plexed 195 BUTLER .
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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