The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative ...
... natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative ...
Pàgina 3
... Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book ...
... Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book ...
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... 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 has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it ...
... 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 has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it ...
Pàgina 19
... 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 poets ; of whom ...
... 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 poets ; of whom ...
Pàgina 20
... natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate ... nature and art are ranfacked for illuftrations , com- parifons , and allufions ; their learning inftructs , and ...
... natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate ... nature and art are ranfacked for illuftrations , com- parifons , and allufions ; their learning inftructs , and ...
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