The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... mind , not very extenfive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
... mind , not very extenfive or dif- ficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
Pàgina 2
... mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
Pàgina 4
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . " Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . " Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ...
Pàgina 7
... mind to an elaborate pur- gation of his character from crimes which he was never within the poffibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the ...
... mind to an elaborate pur- gation of his character from crimes which he was never within the poffibility of ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they fhew him to have been above the ...
Pàgina 11
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill will of fome of his friends ) , he went into France again , having " made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered ...
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill will of fome of his friends ) , he went into France again , having " made a copy of verfes on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered ...
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