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 24
... heroic poetry . He had apparently fuch rectitude of judgment as fecured him from every thing that approached to the ridiculous or abfurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but civil 24 PRIOR .
... heroic poetry . He had apparently fuch rectitude of judgment as fecured him from every thing that approached to the ridiculous or abfurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but civil 24 PRIOR .
Pàgina 25
... virtue , but the repreffion of wickedness , fo judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
... virtue , but the repreffion of wickedness , fo judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often fublime . It is faid by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
Pàgina 42
... written a ftanza that is fung , or a couplet that is quoted . The general character of his Mifcellanies is , that they fhew little wit , and little virtue . Yet 1 Tet to him it must be confeffed that we 4.2 CONGREVE .
... written a ftanza that is fung , or a couplet that is quoted . The general character of his Mifcellanies is , that they fhew little wit , and little virtue . Yet 1 Tet to him it must be confeffed that we 4.2 CONGREVE .
Pàgina 45
... Virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub- lick work was an heroick poem . He was not known as a maker of verfes , till he publifhed ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by fuch ...
... Virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub- lick work was an heroick poem . He was not known as a maker of verfes , till he publifhed ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by fuch ...
Pàgina 47
... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often difpofed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succeffion or not , he at least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through This ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often difpofed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succeffion or not , he at least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through This ...
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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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