The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech, P. Hill, W. Mudie, & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1800 |
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Pàgina 18
... Love - verfes , Occafional Poems , Alma , and Solomon . His Tales have obtained general approbation , being written with great familiarity and great fpritelinefs : the language is eafy , but feldom grofs , and the numbers fmooth ...
... Love - verfes , Occafional Poems , Alma , and Solomon . His Tales have obtained general approbation , being written with great familiarity and great fpritelinefs : the language is eafy , but feldom grofs , and the numbers fmooth ...
Pàgina 19
... Love has hardly a just claim to the title of a Tale . I know not whether he be the original author of any Tale which he has given us . The Adventure of Hans Carvel has paffed through many fucceffions of merry wits ; for it is to be ...
... Love has hardly a just claim to the title of a Tale . I know not whether he be the original author of any Tale which he has given us . The Adventure of Hans Carvel has paffed through many fucceffions of merry wits ; for it is to be ...
Pàgina 29
... Love and Duty reconciled : It is praised by the bio- graphers , who quote fome part of the preface , that is indeed , for fuch a time of life , uncommonly ju- dicious . I would rather praise it than read it . His firft dramatic labour ...
... Love and Duty reconciled : It is praised by the bio- graphers , who quote fome part of the preface , that is indeed , for fuch a time of life , uncommonly ju- dicious . I would rather praise it than read it . His firft dramatic labour ...
Pàgina 31
... Love for Love : a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the C4 and CONGREVE . 31.
... Love for Love : a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the C4 and CONGREVE . 31.
Pàgina 35
... Love for Love , and the remark upon it , may afford a fpecimen . Sir Sampf . " Sampfon's a very good name ; " for your Sampfons were ftrong dogs from the beginning . " Angel . Have a care - If you remember , the ftrongest Sampfon of ...
... Love for Love , and the remark upon it , may afford a fpecimen . Sir Sampf . " Sampfon's a very good name ; " for your Sampfons were ftrong dogs from the beginning . " Angel . Have a care - If you remember , the ftrongest Sampfon of ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1782 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1865 |
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