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 11
... feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he figned what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have con- tradicted or explained away . The oath was ad ministered by Bofcawen , a ...
... feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he figned what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have con- tradicted or explained away . The oath was ad ministered by Bofcawen , a ...
Pàgina 16
... feems to have adhered , not only by concurrence of political defigns , but by peculiar affection , to the earl of Oxford and his family . With how much confi- dence he was trufted , has been already told . He was however , in Pope's ...
... feems to have adhered , not only by concurrence of political defigns , but by peculiar affection , to the earl of Oxford and his family . With how much confi- dence he was trufted , has been already told . He was however , in Pope's ...
Pàgina 17
... feems to deferve infer- tion t " I have been affured that Prior , after having " fpent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , " Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , " and drink a bottle of ale , with a common foldier * Spence ...
... feems to deferve infer- tion t " I have been affured that Prior , after having " fpent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , " Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , " and drink a bottle of ale , with a common foldier * Spence ...
Pàgina 18
... feem to have been right ; but his life was , it feems , irregular , negligent , and fenfual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all ftyles , from the grotefque to the folemn , and ...
... feem to have been right ; but his life was , it feems , irregular , negligent , and fenfual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all ftyles , from the grotefque to the folemn , and ...
Pàgina 21
... 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 Horace faid when he imitated Lucilius , might be faid of Butler by ...
... 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 Horace faid when he imitated Lucilius , might be faid of Butler by ...
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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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