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 34
... force , " Or wind in volumes to their former course . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never fo much , can never return to " their former courfe , unless he can fup- pofe ...
... force , " Or wind in volumes to their former course . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never fo much , can never return to " their former courfe , unless he can fup- pofe ...
Pàgina 50
... adjust the minute events of literary hiftory , is tedious and troublesome ; it re- quires indeed no great force of understand- ing , but often depends upon enquiries which there there is no opportunity of making , or is to 50 DRY D E N.
... adjust the minute events of literary hiftory , is tedious and troublesome ; it re- quires indeed no great force of understand- ing , but often depends upon enquiries which there there is no opportunity of making , or is to 50 DRY D E N.
Pàgina 93
... force himself upon me for an adverfary ; I contemn him too much to enter into competition with him . As for the rest of those who have written against me , they are fuch fcoundrels that they deferve 3 deferve not the leaft notice to be ...
... force himself upon me for an adverfary ; I contemn him too much to enter into competition with him . As for the rest of those who have written against me , they are fuch fcoundrels that they deferve 3 deferve not the leaft notice to be ...
Pàgina 114
... frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to ftand high in his own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and and the spritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is easy 114 DRYDEN .
... frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to ftand high in his own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and and the spritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is easy 114 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 130
... force , but not more pains em- ploys : Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind , That , like the earth's , it leaves our fenfe behind , While you fo fmoothly turn and rowl our fphere , That rapid motion does but reft appear . For as ...
... force , but not more pains em- ploys : Such is the mighty swiftness of your mind , That , like the earth's , it leaves our fenfe behind , While you fo fmoothly turn and rowl our fphere , That rapid motion does but reft appear . For as ...
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