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 8
... formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in ...
... formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in ...
Pàgina 44
... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian is commonly esteemed either the first or second of his ...
... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian is commonly esteemed either the first or second of his ...
Pàgina 71
... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince , He confidered the epick as neceffarily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of ...
... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince , He confidered the epick as neceffarily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of ...
Pàgina 72
... formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of pagan deities , afford very striking scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and ...
... formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of pagan deities , afford very striking scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and ...
Pàgina 90
... formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He de- grades his own dignity by fhewing that he was affected by their cenfures , and gives last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would ...
... formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He de- grades his own dignity by fhewing that he was affected by their cenfures , and gives last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would ...
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