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 5
... probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is ...
... probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is ...
Pàgina 52
... probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal satire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , and mimicked the manner , of Dryden ...
... probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal satire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , and mimicked the manner , of Dryden ...
Pàgina 65
... 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 profeflion . To reafon in verfe was ...
... 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 profeflion . To reafon in verfe was ...
Pàgina 84
... probably did not offer his converfation , because he expected it to be folicited ; and he retired from a cold re- ception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with fuch reverence of his own greatness as made . him unwilling to expofe it to ...
... probably did not offer his converfation , because he expected it to be folicited ; and he retired from a cold re- ception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with fuch reverence of his own greatness as made . him unwilling to expofe it to ...
Pàgina 88
... probably , like his merriment , artificial and constrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal ...
... probably , like his merriment , artificial and constrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
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