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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... least one accidental refemblance : Hudibras wants a plan , because it is left imperfect : Alma is imperfect , because it feems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have propofed to himself any drift or defign , but to have ...
... least one accidental refemblance : Hudibras wants a plan , because it is left imperfect : Alma is imperfect , because it feems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have propofed to himself any drift or defign , but to have ...
Pàgina 30
... least equally pleafing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at fuch an age , requires fome confideration . As the lighter fpecies of dra- matic poetry profeffes the imitation of common life , of real manners , and daily incidents ...
... least equally pleafing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at fuch an age , requires fome confideration . As the lighter fpecies of dra- matic poetry profeffes the imitation of common life , of real manners , and daily incidents ...
Pàgina 47
... least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through This whole life . His ardour of poetry ftill continued ; and not long after ( 1700 ) he published a Paraphrafe on the Book of Job , and other parts of the ...
... least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through This whole life . His ardour of poetry ftill continued ; and not long after ( 1700 ) he published a Paraphrafe on the Book of Job , and other parts of the ...
Pàgina 48
... 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 united the poets almost ...
... 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 united the poets almost ...
Pàgina 58
... least known enough to be ridi- culed ; the two last had neither friends nor ene- mies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it feizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being defpifed as a ...
... least known enough to be ridi- culed ; the two last had neither friends nor ene- mies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it feizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being defpifed as a ...
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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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