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 15
... hand at fools , and a great " He felicity in writing nonfenfe for them . " Fools they will be in spite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and " his fub - villain , nay his hero , have all a " certain natural caft of ...
... hand at fools , and a great " He felicity in writing nonfenfe for them . " Fools they will be in spite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and " his fub - villain , nay his hero , have all a " certain natural caft of ...
Pàgina 40
... hand , Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , Might hence prefume the whole creation's day To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions for the heat of his ...
... hand , Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , Might hence prefume the whole creation's day To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions for the heat of his ...
Pàgina 50
... hands employed upon this per- formance ; in which , though by fome ar- tifice of action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ftage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a ...
... hands employed upon this per- formance ; in which , though by fome ar- tifice of action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ftage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a ...
Pàgina 51
... hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet is represented as ridiculing paffages in the Conquest of Granada and Affignation , which were not published till 1678 , in Marriage Alamode published in 1673 , and in Tyrannick Love of ...
... hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet is represented as ridiculing paffages in the Conquest of Granada and Affignation , which were not published till 1678 , in Marriage Alamode published in 1673 , and in Tyrannick Love of ...
Pàgina 54
... hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left in that per- plexity which generality produces a question which it was his intereft to fuppress , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely ...
... hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left in that per- plexity which generality produces a question which it was his intereft to fuppress , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely ...
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