The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina vi
... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere + printed before . The former edi- tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be fuppofed to have ...
... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere + printed before . The former edi- tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be fuppofed to have ...
Pàgina 18
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Pàgina 21
... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
Pàgina 23
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently diftin ...
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently diftin ...
Pàgina 36
... remarks , that fome falfehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious al- lufions . It gave a piteous groan , and fo it broke : In vain it fomething would have fpoke ; The The love within too ftrong for ' t was , 36 ...
... remarks , that fome falfehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious al- lufions . It gave a piteous groan , and fo it broke : In vain it fomething would have fpoke ; The The love within too ftrong for ' t was , 36 ...
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