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 12
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for fome time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10th , 1715 ) moved for an im- peachment against him . What made him fo acri- monious does not appear : he was by nature no thirfter for ...
... endeavouring to find proofs . He continued thus confined for fome time ; and Mr. Walpole ( June 10th , 1715 ) moved for an im- peachment against him . What made him fo acri- monious does not appear : he was by nature no thirfter for ...
Pàgina 38
... endeavoured , he fel dom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or paffion : his perfon- ages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or ftrike ; the contest of fmart- nefs is ...
... endeavoured , he fel dom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or paffion : his perfon- ages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or ftrike ; the contest of fmart- nefs is ...
Pàgina 48
... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Con- greve by higher praife of his Mourning Bride , than it has obtained from any other critic . The fame year he published a Satire on Wit ; a proclamation of defiance which ...
... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Con- greve by higher praife of his Mourning Bride , than it has obtained from any other critic . The fame year he published a Satire on Wit ; a proclamation of defiance which ...
Pàgina 77
... endeavoured to enter tain the town with Three Hours after Marriage ; a comedy written , as there is fufficient reafon for believing , by the joint affiftance of Pope and Ar- buthnot . One purpofe of it was to bring into contempt Dr ...
... endeavoured to enter tain the town with Three Hours after Marriage ; a comedy written , as there is fufficient reafon for believing , by the joint affiftance of Pope and Ar- buthnot . One purpofe of it was to bring into contempt Dr ...
Pàgina 88
... endeavoured to be true at once to the King and to the Church . Of this regulated loyalty he has tranfmitted to pofterity a fufficient proof , in the letter which he wrote to his father about a month before the prince of Orange landed ...
... endeavoured to be true at once to the King and to the Church . Of this regulated loyalty he has tranfmitted to pofterity a fufficient proof , in the letter which he wrote to his father about a month before the prince of Orange landed ...
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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 |
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