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 5
... mind what he reprefents him in his verses ; he confidered him as a hero , and was accustomed to fay , that he praifed others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating king William he followed his inclination . To Prior ...
... mind what he reprefents him in his verses ; he confidered him as a hero , and was accustomed to fay , that he praifed others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating king William he followed his inclination . To Prior ...
Pàgina 22
... delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when pro- duced is new , and novelty is the great fource of pleasure . pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous 22 PRIOR .
... delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when pro- duced is new , and novelty is the great fource of pleasure . pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous 22 PRIOR .
Pàgina 23
... mind , without the interven- tion of any other fpeaker , or the mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is ...
... mind , without the interven- tion of any other fpeaker , or the mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is ...
Pàgina 30
... may be made by a mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comick characters by the perufal of other poets , without much actual commerce with . mankind . 1 mankind . The dialogue is one conftant reciproca- tion of 30 CONGRE V E.
... may be made by a mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comick characters by the perufal of other poets , without much actual commerce with . mankind . 1 mankind . The dialogue is one conftant reciproca- tion of 30 CONGRE V E.
Pàgina 38
... mind replete with images , and quick in combination . Of his mifcellaneous poetry I cannot fay any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve feem to defert him when he leaves the ftage , as Antæus was no longer ftrong than when he ...
... mind replete with images , and quick in combination . Of his mifcellaneous poetry I cannot fay any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve feem to defert him when he leaves the ftage , as Antæus was no longer ftrong than when he ...
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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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