The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina vi
... publick acknowledgement . * Langbaine's authority will not fupport the dates affigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now rectified in the margin by re- ference to the original Editions , the only guides to be relied on . R. In the ...
... publick acknowledgement . * Langbaine's authority will not fupport the dates affigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now rectified in the margin by re- ference to the original Editions , the only guides to be relied on . R. In the ...
Pàgina 73
... publick at- tention ; for Waller remarked , " that he broke out " like the Irish rebellion , three - fcore thoufand ftrong , " when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected " it ; " an obfervation which could have had no pro- priety ...
... publick at- tention ; for Waller remarked , " that he broke out " like the Irish rebellion , three - fcore thoufand ftrong , " when nobody was aware , or in the least suspected " it ; " an obfervation which could have had no pro- priety ...
Pàgina 75
... publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is fhort and uncertain ; a fecond marriage brought upon him fo much dif- quiet , as for a time difordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his , lunacy . I know pot ...
... publick would now make him happy . But human felicity is fhort and uncertain ; a fecond marriage brought upon him fo much dif- quiet , as for a time difordered his understanding ; and Butler lampooned him for his , lunacy . I know pot ...
Pàgina 86
... publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations : they would in any numerous school have obtained praife , but not ex- cited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that ...
... publick eye ; but they raise no great expectations : they would in any numerous school have obtained praife , but not ex- cited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that ...
Pàgina 87
... publick indignity of corporal correction . It was , in the violence of controversial hoftility , objected to him , that he was expelled : this he stea- dily denies , and it was apparently not true ; but it feems plain , from his own ...
... publick indignity of corporal correction . It was , in the violence of controversial hoftility , objected to him , that he was expelled : this he stea- dily denies , and it was apparently not true ; but it feems plain , from his own ...
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