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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... subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he maintains the fame prin- ciples , and faw them both attacked by the fame antagonist . Elkanah ...
... subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he maintains the fame prin- ciples , and faw them both attacked by the fame antagonist . Elkanah ...
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... subject to have strongly fixed the pub- lick attention . In the two first dialogues Bayes is brought into the company of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatick poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr ...
... subject to have strongly fixed the pub- lick attention . In the two first dialogues Bayes is brought into the company of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatick poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr ...
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... subject is fufceptible ; acrimony of censure , elegance of praise , artful delineation of cha- racters , variety and vigour of fentiment , happy turns of language , and pleafing har- mony of numbers ; and all these raised to fuch a ...
... subject is fufceptible ; acrimony of censure , elegance of praise , artful delineation of cha- racters , variety and vigour of fentiment , happy turns of language , and pleafing har- mony of numbers ; and all these raised to fuch a ...
Pàgina 151
... subject is to the poet , what durable materials are to the ar- chitect . The Religio Laici , which borrows its title from the Religio Medici of Browne , is almost the only work of Dryden which can be con- fidered as a voluntary effufion ...
... subject is to the poet , what durable materials are to the ar- chitect . The Religio Laici , which borrows its title from the Religio Medici of Browne , is almost the only work of Dryden which can be con- fidered as a voluntary effufion ...
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... subjects employed his pen , he was still improving our measures and embel- lishing our language . In this volume are interspersed some short original poems , which , with his prologues , epilogues , and fongs , may be comprised in ...
... subjects employed his pen , he was still improving our measures and embel- lishing our language . In this volume are interspersed some short original poems , which , with his prologues , epilogues , and fongs , may be comprised in ...
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