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 21
... 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 Prior ...
... 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 Prior ...
Pàgina 23
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tiffues of common thoughts ; and his fmaller , which confift of light images or fingle conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French Epigramma ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tiffues of common thoughts ; and his fmaller , which confift of light images or fingle conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French Epigramma ...
Pàgina 24
... never facrifices accu- racy to hafte , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idlenefs ; he has no care- lefs lines , or entangled fentiments : his words are nicely felected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
... never facrifices accu- racy to hafte , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idlenefs ; he has no care- lefs lines , or entangled fentiments : his words are nicely felected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
Pàgina 25
... never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself fometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own . tail . Whatever Prior obtains ...
... never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself fometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own . tail . Whatever Prior obtains ...
Pàgina 30
... never had seen fuch a first play ; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite to the fuccefs of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the ftage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of ...
... never had seen fuch a first play ; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite to the fuccefs of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the ftage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of ...
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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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