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 52
... supposed to have been Dryden's ha- bitual phrafes , or cuftomary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged this , as Lamotte relates himself to have heard , was the real practice of the poet . There were other ...
... supposed to have been Dryden's ha- bitual phrafes , or cuftomary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged this , as Lamotte relates himself to have heard , was the real practice of the poet . There were other ...
Pàgina 54
... supposed to have been fufficiently bufied by the com- pofition of eight and twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the fame space for many other undertakings . But , how much foever he wrote , he was at least once fufpected ...
... supposed to have been fufficiently bufied by the com- pofition of eight and twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the fame space for many other undertakings . But , how much foever he wrote , he was at least once fufpected ...
Pàgina 74
... supposed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr. Tonfon ; by which he obliged himself , in confider- ation of three hundred pounds , to finish for the press ten thousand verses . ་ In this volume is comprised the well- known ode on St ...
... supposed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr. Tonfon ; by which he obliged himself , in confider- ation of three hundred pounds , to finish for the press ten thousand verses . ་ In this volume is comprised the well- known ode on St ...
Pàgina 93
... supposed that Dryden imputes his enmity to its true cause . Of Milbourne he wrote only in general terms , fuch as are always ready at the call of anger , whether just or not : a fhort extract will be fufficient . He pretends a quarrel ...
... supposed that Dryden imputes his enmity to its true cause . Of Milbourne he wrote only in general terms , fuch as are always ready at the call of anger , whether just or not : a fhort extract will be fufficient . He pretends a quarrel ...
Pàgina 121
... supposed to have blafted his genius , to have driven out his works in a ftate of immaturity , and to have intercepted the full - blown ele- gance which longer growth would have fupplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is fomé ...
... supposed to have blafted his genius , to have driven out his works in a ftate of immaturity , and to have intercepted the full - blown ele- gance which longer growth would have fupplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is fomé ...
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