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 4
... tion of elegy was univerfal . Maria's praife was not confined to the English language , but fills a great part of the Mufa Anglicana . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect ...
... tion of elegy was univerfal . Maria's praife was not confined to the English language , but fills a great part of the Mufa Anglicana . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect ...
Pàgina 17
... tion t " I have been affured that Prior , after having " fpent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , " Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , " and drink a bottle of ale , with a common foldier * Spence ; and fee Gent . Mag ...
... tion t " I have been affured that Prior , after having " fpent the evening with Oxford , Bolingbroke , " Pope , and Swift , would go and smoke a pipe , " and drink a bottle of ale , with a common foldier * Spence ; and fee Gent . Mag ...
Pàgina 23
... 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 forefeen , and therefore the ...
... 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 forefeen , and therefore the ...
Pàgina 30
... 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.
... 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 31
... tion of conceits , or clafh of wit , in which nothing hows neceffarily from the occafion , or is dictated by nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as thofe of Heart- well , and the Ladies ...
... tion of conceits , or clafh of wit , in which nothing hows neceffarily from the occafion , or is dictated by nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as thofe of Heart- well , and the Ladies ...
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