The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 14
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry fharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . II . tally tally to exclude diffidence and shame by á ...
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry fharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . II . tally tally to exclude diffidence and shame by á ...
Pàgina 15
... play it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by obferving how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by obferving how ...
Pàgina 155
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of fuperftitious ig- norance . The penfive man , at one time , walks unfeen to mufe at midnight ; and at another hears the fullen cur- curfew . If the weather drives him ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of fuperftitious ig- norance . The penfive man , at one time , walks unfeen to mufe at midnight ; and at another hears the fullen cur- curfew . If the weather drives him ...
Pàgina 162
... play the motives and actions of beings thus fuperior , fo far as human reason can examine them , or human imagination reprefent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epick poems ...
... play the motives and actions of beings thus fuperior , fo far as human reason can examine them , or human imagination reprefent them , is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed . In the examination of epick poems ...
Pàgina 177
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unneceffary and ungraceful ufe of terms of art ; it is not necef- fary to mention , because ...
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unneceffary and ungraceful ufe of terms of art ; it is not necef- fary to mention , because ...
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