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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... manner of Horace's Lufory or Ama- torian Odes , is certainly a mafter - piece ; but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of the fublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and furprising ...
... manner of Horace's Lufory or Ama- torian Odes , is certainly a mafter - piece ; but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of the fublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and furprising ...
Pàgina 21
... manners are fo diftant from our own , that we know them not from fym- pathy , but by ftudy : the ignorant do not underftand the action ; the learned reject it as a fchool boy's tale ; incredulus odi . What I cannot for a moment believe ...
... manners are fo diftant from our own , that we know them not from fym- pathy , but by ftudy : the ignorant do not underftand the action ; the learned reject it as a fchool boy's tale ; incredulus odi . What I cannot for a moment believe ...
Pàgina 31
... more than fatisfies moft other students . He took his degree in the moft expenfive manner , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a confiderable fortune . In 1688 , the fame year in which he was In ( 31 ) KING.
... more than fatisfies moft other students . He took his degree in the moft expenfive manner , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a confiderable fortune . In 1688 , the fame year in which he was In ( 31 ) KING.
Pàgina 41
... manner that delighted his au- dience , their approbation was expreffed by a loud hum , continued in proportion to their zeal or plea fure . When Burnet preached , part of his congrega tion bummed fo loudly and fo long , that he fat down ...
... manner that delighted his au- dience , their approbation was expreffed by a loud hum , continued in proportion to their zeal or plea fure . When Burnet preached , part of his congrega tion bummed fo loudly and fo long , that he fat down ...
Pàgina 64
... manner of Shakspeare ; whose dramas it resembles only as it is an English ftory , and as fome of the perfons have their names in hiftory . This play , confifting chiefly of domestick scenes and private diftrefs , lays hold upon the ...
... manner of Shakspeare ; whose dramas it resembles only as it is an English ftory , and as fome of the perfons have their names in hiftory . This play , confifting chiefly of domestick scenes and private diftrefs , lays hold upon the ...
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