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 2
... imagining that he was more or lefs converfant with that family . The fame year he published the City Mouse and Country Moufe , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and Panther , in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a ftory of great pain ...
... imagining that he was more or lefs converfant with that family . The fame year he published the City Mouse and Country Moufe , to ridicule Dryden's Hind and Panther , in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a ftory of great pain ...
Pàgina 47
... imagined himself to have con- tributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of confiderable ufe , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honeft ; but he might easily make a falfe eftimate of his own im ...
... imagined himself to have con- tributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of confiderable ufe , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honeft ; but he might easily make a falfe eftimate of his own im ...
Pàgina 56
... 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 understanding , fo the amicable accom ...
... 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 understanding , fo the amicable accom ...
Pàgina 62
... imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care less neceffary . Its two constituent parts are ratiocination and defcription . To reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verfe , but ...
... imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care less neceffary . Its two constituent parts are ratiocination and defcription . To reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verfe , but ...
Pàgina 100
... imagined with great vi- gour , and expreffed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The feven firft ftanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh , are the beft ; the eighth feems to involve a contradiction ; the ...
... imagined with great vi- gour , and expreffed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The feven firft ftanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh , are the beft ; the eighth feems to involve a contradiction ; the ...
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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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