The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 1253 pàgines |
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... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wife reflections of Tacitus . This Since Temple and Rofcommon , no man under- ftood Horace better , efpecially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
... elegant and moving turns of Pliny , and the acute and wife reflections of Tacitus . This Since Temple and Rofcommon , no man under- ftood Horace better , efpecially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful imagery , and ...
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... elegant judgement and diffufive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is fo juftly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , fhe has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English ftage ...
... elegant judgement and diffufive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is fo juftly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , fhe has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English ftage ...
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... elegant mixture of fondness and admiration , of dignity and foftnefs . There are fome paffages too ludicrous ; but every human per- formance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchafe for a guinea ; and ...
... elegant mixture of fondness and admiration , of dignity and foftnefs . There are fome paffages too ludicrous ; but every human per- formance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchafe for a guinea ; and ...
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... His poetry has been praised at leaft equally to its merit . In the Difpenfary there is a strain of smooth and free verfification ; but few lines are eminently elegant . ! elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few 58 GARTH .
... His poetry has been praised at leaft equally to its merit . In the Difpenfary there is a strain of smooth and free verfification ; but few lines are eminently elegant . ! elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few 58 GARTH .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few rife much above it . The plan feems formed without juft proportion to the fubject ; the means and end have no neceffary ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. elegant . No paffages fall below mediocrity , and few rife much above it . The plan feems formed without juft proportion to the fubject ; the means and end have no neceffary ...
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