The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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Pàgina 26
... scenes are , for the most part ; delightful ; they exhi- bit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and ma- jestick madness : fuch as , if it is sometimes defpifed , is often reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with the afto ...
... scenes are , for the most part ; delightful ; they exhi- bit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and ma- jestick madness : fuch as , if it is sometimes defpifed , is often reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with the afto ...
Pàgina 44
... scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian is commonly esteemed either the first or second of his dramatick per- formances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many characters and many inci- dents ; and though ...
... scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian is commonly esteemed either the first or second of his dramatick per- formances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many characters and many inci- dents ; and though ...
Pàgina 45
... scenes which the writer intended for comick ; but which , I suppose , that age did not much commend , and this would not endure . There are , however , paffages of excellence univerfally acknowledged ; the difpute and the reconci ...
... scenes which the writer intended for comick ; but which , I suppose , that age did not much commend , and this would not endure . There are , however , paffages of excellence univerfally acknowledged ; the difpute and the reconci ...
Pàgina 72
... scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and Boileau will be seldom found miftaken , with this incurable defect , that in a conteft between heaven and hell we know at the be- ginning which is to ...
... scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and Boileau will be seldom found miftaken , with this incurable defect , that in a conteft between heaven and hell we know at the be- ginning which is to ...
Pàgina 235
... scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at prefent lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may juftify the largest ex- pectations , and is fufficient to make the ...
... scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at prefent lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may juftify the largest ex- pectations , and is fufficient to make the ...
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