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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... opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy reftor- ation and return of his most facred Majesty King Charles the Second . The reproach of inconftancy was , on this occafion , shared with fuch numbers ...
... opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy reftor- ation and return of his most facred Majesty King Charles the Second . The reproach of inconftancy was , on this occafion , shared with fuch numbers ...
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... opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had 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 ...
... opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had 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 ...
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... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , felf - love may eafily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please .. upon Sir ...
... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , felf - love may eafily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please .. upon Sir ...
Pàgina 37
... opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafonable cenfure . Amboyna is a ...
... opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafonable cenfure . Amboyna is a ...
Pàgina 38
... opinion , the laft fcene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I fufpect that Rymer's book had given occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , emi ...
... opinion , the laft fcene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I fufpect that Rymer's book had given occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , emi ...
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