The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 4
... justly be applied to him : ' Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico . ' Hor . Sat. i . 5. 44 . As correct a writer as he was in his most elaborate pieces , he read the works of others with candour , and reserved his greatest severity ...
... justly be applied to him : ' Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico . ' Hor . Sat. i . 5. 44 . As correct a writer as he was in his most elaborate pieces , he read the works of others with candour , and reserved his greatest severity ...
Pàgina 8
... justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin Phædra , I need not say she ...
... justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct , upon the English stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin Phædra , I need not say she ...
Pàgina 11
... justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death , he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had pre- pared the world to expect mighty things from him . I ...
... justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death , he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had pre- pared the world to expect mighty things from him . I ...
Pàgina 52
... justly offended with some behaviour which arose from that want , and estranged himself from him ; which Rowe felt very severely . Mr. Pope , their common friend , knowing this , took an opportunity , at some juncture of Mr. Addison's ...
... justly offended with some behaviour which arose from that want , and estranged himself from him ; which Rowe felt very severely . Mr. Pope , their common friend , knowing this , took an opportunity , at some juncture of Mr. Addison's ...
Pàgina 59
... justly considered as the most elegant , if not the most sublime , of his poetical pro- ductions . But in about two years he found it necessary to hasten home ; being , as Swift informs us , distressed by indigence , and compelled to ...
... justly considered as the most elegant , if not the most sublime , of his poetical pro- ductions . But in about two years he found it necessary to hasten home ; being , as Swift informs us , distressed by indigence , and compelled to ...
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