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 60
... to an infallible church . If men of argument and study can find fuch difficulties , or fuch motives , as may either unite them to the church of Rome , or or detain them in uncertainty , there can be no bỏ D R Y D EN .
... to an infallible church . If men of argument and study can find fuch difficulties , or fuch motives , as may either unite them to the church of Rome , or or detain them in uncertainty , there can be no bỏ D R Y D EN .
Pàgina 62
... studies , and filled it , capacious as it was , with other ma- terials , came unprovided to the controver- fy , and wanted rather fkill to discover the right than virtue to maintain it . But en- quiries into the heart are not for man ...
... studies , and filled it , capacious as it was , with other ma- terials , came unprovided to the controver- fy , and wanted rather fkill to discover the right than virtue to maintain it . But en- quiries into the heart are not for man ...
Pàgina 88
... study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the fake of spreading the contagion in fociety , I wish not to ...
... study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the fake of spreading the contagion in fociety , I wish not to ...
Pàgina 111
... study ; from which if ever he departs , he is in danger of lofing himself in unknown regions . In his Dialogue on the Drama , he pro- nounces with great confidence that the Latin tragedy of Medea is not Ovid's , because it is not ...
... study ; from which if ever he departs , he is in danger of lofing himself in unknown regions . In his Dialogue on the Drama , he pro- nounces with great confidence that the Latin tragedy of Medea is not Ovid's , because it is not ...
Pàgina 113
... studies were rather defultory and fortui- tous than conftant and fyftematical . It must be confeffed that he scarcely ever appears to want book - learning but when he mentions books ; and to him may be tranf- ferred the praise which he ...
... studies were rather defultory and fortui- tous than conftant and fyftematical . It must be confeffed that he scarcely ever appears to want book - learning but when he mentions books ; and to him may be tranf- ferred the praise which he ...
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