The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome fome things , and rejecting ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome fome things , and rejecting ...
Pàgina 3
... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them , and being an enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself the la- bour . 66 Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might ...
... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them , and being an enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself the la- bour . 66 Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might ...
Pàgina 6
... tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some mea- fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela ...
... tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some mea- fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ela ...
Pàgina 8
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argu- " ment above all the reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing to that purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the present time would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argu- " ment above all the reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing to that purpose . " 66 This expreffion from a fecretary of the present time would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
Pàgina 18
... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clark , Alderman of Lon don . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark ...
... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clark , Alderman of Lon don . Dr. J.-Mr. Clark ...
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