The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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Pàgina 13
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Pàgina 147
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home ...
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... for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often , his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is 168 MILTON .
... for its place . His play on words , in which he delights too often , his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to de- fend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is 168 MILTON .
Pàgina 189
... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion ...
... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion ...
Pàgina 204
... play , which en- 6 gaged him in one adventure that well deserves to " be related . As he returned to his lodgings from " a gaming - table , he was attacked in the dark by " three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate " him . The ...
... play , which en- 6 gaged him in one adventure that well deserves to " be related . As he returned to his lodgings from " a gaming - table , he was attacked in the dark by " three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate " him . The ...
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