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 2
... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptist . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptist . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
Pàgina 3
... last exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might feem a conftellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his ...
... last exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might feem a conftellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his ...
Pàgina 27
... 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 , ❝ in as " much ignorance ...
... 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 , ❝ in as " much ignorance ...
Pàgina 59
... audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to defcribe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this degree of regard , if it was paid even DRY D E N. 59.
... audacity made the city poet , whose annual office was to defcribe the glories of the Mayor's day . Of these bards he was the last , and seems not much to have deserved even this degree of regard , if it was paid even DRY D E N. 59.
Pàgina 65
... last employment . " < 6 Having probably felt his own inferiority . in theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious defender of his new ...
... last employment . " < 6 Having probably felt his own inferiority . in theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious defender of his new ...
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