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 26
... these fpecimens will fhew : SPENSER . She flying faft from heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discover'd wide , Fled to the wafteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open fhame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and ...
... these fpecimens will fhew : SPENSER . She flying faft from heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discover'd wide , Fled to the wafteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open fhame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and ...
Pàgina 31
... these deductions are made , will ftill remain the work of very power- ful and fertile faculties : the dialogue is quick and fparkling , the incidents fuch as feize the attention , and the wit fo exuberant that it " o'er - inform its ...
... these deductions are made , will ftill remain the work of very power- ful and fertile faculties : the dialogue is quick and fparkling , the incidents fuch as feize the attention , and the wit fo exuberant that it " o'er - inform its ...
Pàgina 38
... these little pieces neither elevation of fancy , felection of language , nor fkill in verfification : yet if I were required to felect from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to ...
... these little pieces neither elevation of fancy , felection of language , nor fkill in verfification : yet if I were required to felect from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to ...
Pàgina 40
... these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many fyllables of fenfeless dolour , he difmiffes his reader with fenfelefs confolation from the grave of Paftora rifes a light that forms a ftar ; and where Amaryllis wept for Amyntas , from ...
... these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many fyllables of fenfeless dolour , he difmiffes his reader with fenfelefs confolation from the grave of Paftora rifes a light that forms a ftar ; and where Amaryllis wept for Amyntas , from ...
Pàgina 93
... these favours he foon loft all but his title ; for at the acceffion of king George his place was given to the earl Cholmondeley , and he was per- fecuted with the rest of his party . Having protested against the bill for attainting ...
... these favours he foon loft all but his title ; for at the acceffion of king George his place was given to the earl Cholmondeley , and he was per- fecuted with the rest of his party . Having protested against the bill for attainting ...
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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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