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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... raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ... raised him enemies . It The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond poem on his reftoration . In the ASTREA ...
... raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of ... raised him enemies . It The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond poem on his reftoration . In the ASTREA ...
Pàgina 40
... raised it in a month . This compofition is addreffed to the prin- cefs of Modena , then dutchess of York , in a ftrain of flattery which difgraces genius , and which it was wonderful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words ...
... raised it in a month . This compofition is addreffed to the prin- cefs of Modena , then dutchess of York , in a ftrain of flattery which difgraces genius , and which it was wonderful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words ...
Pàgina 53
... raise it . Neither criticks nor rivals did Dryden much mischief , unless they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent bursts of refentment give reason to fufpect . He is always angry at some past , or ...
... raise it . Neither criticks nor rivals did Dryden much mischief , unless they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent bursts of refentment give reason to fufpect . He is always angry at some past , or ...
Pàgina 94
... raised him many enemies , and which was fome- times as unfeasonably resented as it was ex- erted . Trapp is angry that he calls the fa- crificer in the Georgicks the holy butcher : the translation is indeed ridiculous ; but Trapp's ...
... raised him many enemies , and which was fome- times as unfeasonably resented as it was ex- erted . Trapp is angry that he calls the fa- crificer in the Georgicks the holy butcher : the translation is indeed ridiculous ; but Trapp's ...
Pàgina 132
... with great dili- gence , yet does not fully anfwer the ex- pectation raised by fuch fubjects and fuch a writer . With the stanza of Davenant he has fome- fometimes his vein of parenthefis , and inci- dental difquifition 132 DRY D E N.
... with great dili- gence , yet does not fully anfwer the ex- pectation raised by fuch fubjects and fuch a writer . With the stanza of Davenant he has fome- fometimes his vein of parenthefis , and inci- dental difquifition 132 DRY D E N.
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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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