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 1
... because it was made upon oath . It is obfervable , that as a native of Winborne , he is filed Filius Georgii Prior , generofi ; not confi ently with the common account of the meannefs of his birth . Dr. J. + Samuel Prior kept the Rummer ...
... because it was made upon oath . It is obfervable , that as a native of Winborne , he is filed Filius Georgii Prior , generofi ; not confi ently with the common account of the meannefs of his birth . Dr. J. + Samuel Prior kept the Rummer ...
Pàgina 8
... because he having per- " fonally treated with Monfieur de Torcy , is the " best witnefs we can produce of the sense in which " the general preliminary engagements are entered into befides which , as he is the best versed in " matters of ...
... because he having per- " fonally treated with Monfieur de Torcy , is the " best witnefs we can produce of the sense in which " the general preliminary engagements are entered into befides which , as he is the best versed in " matters of ...
Pàgina 21
... because it is left imperfect : Alma is imperfect , because it feems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have propofed to himself any drift or defign , but to have written the cafual dictates of the prefent moment . What ...
... because it is left imperfect : Alma is imperfect , because it feems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have propofed to himself any drift or defign , but to have written the cafual dictates of the prefent moment . What ...
Pàgina 52
... judgment . " He is not like thofe dry critics , who are morofe " because they cannot write themfelves , but is him- " self master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he " he does not often employ it , yet he 52 BLACKMORE .
... judgment . " He is not like thofe dry critics , who are morofe " because they cannot write themfelves , but is him- " self master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he " he does not often employ it , yet he 52 BLACKMORE .
Pàgina 56
... because I think it better imagined , and better expreffed , than could be expected from the common tenor of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetic " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular ...
... because I think it better imagined , and better expreffed , than could be expected from the common tenor of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetic " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular ...
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