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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Pàgina 206
... imagined himself to have contributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of con- fiderable ufe , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honeft ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own ...
... imagined himself to have contributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of con- fiderable ufe , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honeft ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own ...
Pàgina 215
... imagined , and better expreffed , than could be ex- pected from the common tenour of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetick " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , fo the amicable ...
... imagined , and better expreffed , than could be ex- pected from the common tenour of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetick " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , fo the amicable ...
Pàgina 221
... imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care less neceffary . Its two conftituent parts are ratiocination and de- fcription . To reafon in verfe , is allowed to be dif- ficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verfe ...
... imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care less neceffary . Its two conftituent parts are ratiocination and de- fcription . To reafon in verfe , is allowed to be dif- ficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verfe ...
Pàgina 265
... imagined with great vigour , and expreffed with great propriety . I will not tran- fcribe it . The feven firft ftanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh , are the beft ; the eighth seems to involve a contradiction ; the ...
... imagined with great vigour , and expreffed with great propriety . I will not tran- fcribe it . The feven firft ftanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh , are the beft ; the eighth seems to involve a contradiction ; the ...
Pàgina 283
... imagined likely to treat with great tenderness the child that had contributed to fo pleasing an event . It is not indeed easy to discover what motives could be found to over - balance that natural affection of a * This year was made ...
... imagined likely to treat with great tenderness the child that had contributed to fo pleasing an event . It is not indeed easy to discover what motives could be found to over - balance that natural affection of a * This year was made ...
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