The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... gives reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- : VOL . I. B fents fents as ftruggling earnestly to ...
... gives reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- : VOL . I. B fents fents as ftruggling earnestly to ...
Pàgina 9
... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of feeking fates in books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H ...
... gives a very fatisfactory account of this practice of feeking fates in books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H ...
Pàgina 11
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power ...
... gives the enemy nothing which he had not before ; the neutrality of a captive may be always fecured by his imprisonment or death . He that is at the difpofal of another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power ...
Pàgina 19
... give fome account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often ...
... give fome account . The metaphyfical poets were men of learning , and to fhew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often ...
Pàgina 23
... give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the , example of Donne , a man of ...
... give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copioufnefs of fentiment . This kind of writing , which was , I believe , bor- rowed from Marino and his followers , had been re- commended by the , example of Donne , a man of ...
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