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 11
... favour of Jonfon , by Charles the Firft , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in thofe days not inade- quate to the conveniencies of life . The fame year he published his Effay on ...
... favour of Jonfon , by Charles the Firft , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in thofe days not inade- quate to the conveniencies of life . The fame year he published his Effay on ...
Pàgina 27
... favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . But Clif In the first Letter his obfervation is only general : " You do live , " fays he ...
... favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . But Clif In the first Letter his obfervation is only general : " You do live , " fays he ...
Pàgina 44
... favours him , imputes its expulfion to refent- ment , because it so much expofed the keeping part of the town . Oedipus is a tragedy formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille ...
... favours him , imputes its expulfion to refent- ment , because it so much expofed the keeping part of the town . Oedipus is a tragedy formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille ...
Pàgina 60
... favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have passed with little cen- fure . Sir Kenelm Digby embraced popery ; the two Rainolds reciprocally converted one another ; and Chillingworth himself ...
... favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have passed with little cen- fure . Sir Kenelm Digby embraced popery ; the two Rainolds reciprocally converted one another ; and Chillingworth himself ...
Pàgina 65
... favour , or in mine . It is true , " Mr. D. will fuffer a little by it ; but at " least it will serve to keep him in from " other extravagancies ; and if he gains " little honour by this work , yet he can- " not lofe fo much by it as he ...
... favour , or in mine . It is true , " Mr. D. will fuffer a little by it ; but at " least it will serve to keep him in from " other extravagancies ; and if he gains " little honour by this work , yet he can- " not lofe fo much by it as he ...
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