The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 1
... reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- : VOL . I. B fents fents as ftruggling earnestly to procure ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a fectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his fon , and confequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood repre- : VOL . I. B fents fents as ftruggling earnestly to procure ...
Pàgina 16
... reasons that " made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his 66 former bufinefs , had ftill called upon him , and " reprefented to him the true delights of folitary " ftudies , of ...
... reasons that " made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his 66 former bufinefs , had ftill called upon him , and " reprefented to him the true delights of folitary " ftudies , of ...
Pàgina 22
... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft ; if they ...
... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . Yet great labour , directed by great abilities , is never wholly loft ; if they ...
Pàgina 42
... Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth fphere doth fhine With thousand lights ...
... Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written , feems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth fphere doth fhine With thousand lights ...
Pàgina 99
... reason for doubting . One part of his method deferves general imitation . He was careful to inftruct his fcholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a fhort fyftem , gathered from the writers that ...
... reason for doubting . One part of his method deferves general imitation . He was careful to inftruct his fcholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a fhort fyftem , gathered from the writers that ...
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Æneid againſt anſwer appears becauſe cenfured Charles Dryden compofition confidered converfation Cowley criticifm defign defire delight diſcovered Donne Dryden eafily Earl elegance Engliſh expreffed expreffions fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftill ftudies ftyle fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure genius himſelf houfe houſe Hudibras itſelf John Dryden juft King labour laft leaft learning leaſt lefs lines Lord meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfon perhaps Pindar pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe raiſed reafon reft Regifter reprefented rhyme ſeems thee thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion tragedy tranflation univerfity uſed verfe verfification verſes Virgil Waller whofe write written