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 20
... excellence . The burlefque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in fome parts , fuch airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among thofe who cannot compare it with the original . The Epistle to Boi- leau is not fo happy ...
... excellence . The burlefque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in fome parts , fuch airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among thofe who cannot compare it with the original . The Epistle to Boi- leau is not fo happy ...
Pàgina 25
... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself fometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own . tail ...
... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself fometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own . tail ...
Pàgina 30
... excellence , that , for half a year before it was acted , the mana- ger allowed its author the privilege of the houfe . Few plays have ever been fo beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Ha- lifax , who ...
... excellence , that , for half a year before it was acted , the mana- ger allowed its author the privilege of the houfe . Few plays have ever been fo beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Ha- lifax , who ...
Pàgina 32
... excellence , they are loft at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced thefe four plays before he had paffed his twenty - fifth year , before other men , even fuch as are fome time to fhine in ...
... excellence , they are loft at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced thefe four plays before he had paffed his twenty - fifth year , before other men , even fuch as are fome time to fhine in ...
Pàgina 37
... are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of nature , and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comick excellence , which he fuppofed supposed to confist in gay remarks and unexpected anfwers ; CONGREVE . 37.
... are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of nature , and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comick excellence , which he fuppofed supposed to confist in gay remarks and unexpected anfwers ; CONGREVE . 37.
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