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 32
... kind of dramatic poetry . t ; In this play , of which , when he afterwards re- vifed it , he reduced the verfification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than fentiment the plot is bufy and intricate , and the events take hold ...
... kind of dramatic poetry . t ; In this play , of which , when he afterwards re- vifed it , he reduced the verfification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than fentiment the plot is bufy and intricate , and the events take hold ...
Pàgina 37
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot fpeak diftinctly ; for fince I inspected them many years have paffed ; but what remains upon my ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot fpeak diftinctly ; for fince I inspected them many years have paffed ; but what remains upon my ...
Pàgina 38
... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or ftrike ; the contest of fmart- nefs is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor play- ing to and fro with alternate corufcations . His comedies have therefore , in fome ...
... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or ftrike ; the contest of fmart- nefs is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor play- ing to and fro with alternate corufcations . His comedies have therefore , in fome ...
Pàgina 54
... kind , this age has feen a moft audacious example in the " book intitled A Tale of a Tub . Had this writing " been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to " the " the established ...
... kind , this age has feen a moft audacious example in the " book intitled A Tale of a Tub . Had this writing " been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to " the " the established ...
Pàgina 58
... kind of gangrene , which , if it feizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being defpifed as a poet , was in time neglected as a phyfician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , forfook ...
... kind of gangrene , which , if it feizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being defpifed as a poet , was in time neglected as a phyfician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , forfook ...
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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 - 1821 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets with Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1800 |
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