The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the fuccef- fion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority ...
... pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the fuccef- fion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have fol- lowed Langbaine , as the best authority ...
Pàgina 16
... pleasures , and a moderate " revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- tune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo differently are they fhewn ! but actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
... pleasures , and a moderate " revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- tune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo differently are they fhewn ! but actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
Pàgina 18
... pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch- houfe in Chertfey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . 66- He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenfer ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
... pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch- houfe in Chertfey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . 66- He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenfer ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
Pàgina 19
... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
Pàgina 21
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they should have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than par- takers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they should have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than par- takers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
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