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 4
... occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem ...
... occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem ...
Pàgina 38
... occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , emi- nent for the happy coincidence and coalition of the two plots . As it was written against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the ...
... occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , emi- nent for the happy coincidence and coalition of the two plots . As it was written against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the ...
Pàgina 58
... occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot remove , for want of a minu- ter knowledge of poetical transactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a ...
... occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot remove , for want of a minu- ter knowledge of poetical transactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a ...
Pàgina 63
... occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when she folicited a fon , made vows to him as her tutelary faint . He was fuppofed to have undertaken to tranflate Varillas's Hiftory of Herefies ; and when Burnet published ...
... occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when she folicited a fon , made vows to him as her tutelary faint . He was fuppofed to have undertaken to tranflate Varillas's Hiftory of Herefies ; and when Burnet published ...
Pàgina 68
... occafion as a frugal tradefman can quote that noble treatife the Worth of a Penny to bis extravagant ' prentice , that revels in ftewed apples , and penny custards . The whole animation of these compofi- tions arifes from a profufion of ...
... occafion as a frugal tradefman can quote that noble treatife the Worth of a Penny to bis extravagant ' prentice , that revels in ftewed apples , and penny custards . The whole animation of these compofi- tions arifes from a profufion of ...
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