The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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... should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets , who have written in the dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promife was never formally performed ; but , with refpect to the dra- matick writers , he has ...
... should more fully treat of the virtues and faults of the English poets , who have written in the dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promife was never formally performed ; but , with refpect to the dra- matick writers , he has ...
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... should be exhibited . The following obfervations are there- fore extracted from a quarto pamphlet of ninety- five pages . " Fate after him below with pain did move , " And victory could fcarce keep pace above . " Thefe two lines , if he ...
... should be exhibited . The following obfervations are there- fore extracted from a quarto pamphlet of ninety- five pages . " Fate after him below with pain did move , " And victory could fcarce keep pace above . " Thefe two lines , if he ...
Pàgina 38
... should find any difficulty in breaking the fhackles of verbal inter- pretation , which muft for ever debar it from ele- gance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day obferved . The authority of ...
... should find any difficulty in breaking the fhackles of verbal inter- pretation , which muft for ever debar it from ele- gance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day obferved . The authority of ...
Pàgina 79
... should tranfmit to things . Thofe happy combinations of words which dif- tinguish poetry from profe had been rarely at- tempted : we had few elegances or flowers of fpeech ; the roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble , or ...
... should tranfmit to things . Thofe happy combinations of words which dif- tinguish poetry from profe had been rarely at- tempted : we had few elegances or flowers of fpeech ; the roses had not yet been plucked from the bramble , or ...
Pàgina 83
... should lay hold upon mankind . Occafional compofitions may however fecure to a writer the praise both of learning and facility ; for they cannot be the effect of long ftudy , and must be furnished immediately from the treafures of the ...
... should lay hold upon mankind . Occafional compofitions may however fecure to a writer the praise both of learning and facility ; for they cannot be the effect of long ftudy , and must be furnished immediately from the treafures of the ...
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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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