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 41
... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and needs not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear ...
... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and needs not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear ...
Pàgina 87
... lived in familiarity with the highest per- fons of his time , It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told ...
... lived in familiarity with the highest per- fons of his time , It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told ...
Pàgina 181
... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into conversation ; fuch as fraicheur for cool- nefs , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into conversation ; fuch as fraicheur for cool- nefs , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
Pàgina 207
... lived ; for though " nature , as he objects , is the fame in all " places , and reafon too the fame ; yet the " climate , the age , the difpofition of the 66 people , to whom a poet writes , may be fo " different , that what pleased the ...
... lived ; for though " nature , as he objects , is the fame in all " places , and reafon too the fame ; yet the " climate , the age , the difpofition of the 66 people , to whom a poet writes , may be fo " different , that what pleased the ...
Pàgina 257
... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to fay his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . In 1683 , being ...
... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to fay his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . In 1683 , being ...
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