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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... remark . Having gone through the first act , he says , " To conclude this act with- " the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet , 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles << conform , " Which back'd with thunder do but gild ...
... remark . Having gone through the first act , he says , " To conclude this act with- " the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet , 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles << conform , " Which back'd with thunder do but gild ...
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... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
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... remarks . let honeft credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . ford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . let honeft credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . ford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
Pàgina 30
... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for a country : the sphere of Morocco , as if " Morocco were the globe of earth and water ; " but a globe is no sphere neither , by his leave . " " & c . So sphere must not be sense ...
... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for a country : the sphere of Morocco , as if " Morocco were the globe of earth and water ; " but a globe is no sphere neither , by his leave . " " & c . So sphere must not be sense ...
Pàgina 63
... Remarks upon it , to have written an Anfwer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : 66 66 " I have been informed from England , " that a gentleman , who is famous both for poetry and several other things , had spent ...
... Remarks upon it , to have written an Anfwer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : 66 66 " I have been informed from England , " that a gentleman , who is famous both for poetry and several other things , had spent ...
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