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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Pàgina 27
... Some fuch production was foreseen by Marvel , who writes thus to Milton : Or if a work fo infinite be fpann'd , Jealous I was lefs fome less skilful hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel ...
... Some fuch production was foreseen by Marvel , who writes thus to Milton : Or if a work fo infinite be fpann'd , Jealous I was lefs fome less skilful hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel ...
Pàgina 86
... Some lines deserve to be quoted .. You have already quench'd fedition's brand ; And zeal , that burnt it , only warms the land ; The jealous fects that durft not truft their caufe So far from their own will as to the laws , Him for ...
... Some lines deserve to be quoted .. You have already quench'd fedition's brand ; And zeal , that burnt it , only warms the land ; The jealous fects that durft not truft their caufe So far from their own will as to the laws , Him for ...
Pàgina 90
... Amidft whole heaps of fpices lights a ball , And now their odours arm'd against them fly : Some precioufly by thatter'd porcelain fall , And fome by aromatic fplinters die : And , And , though by tempefts of the prize bereft , 90 DRYDEN .
... Amidft whole heaps of fpices lights a ball , And now their odours arm'd against them fly : Some precioufly by thatter'd porcelain fall , And fome by aromatic fplinters die : And , And , though by tempefts of the prize bereft , 90 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 92
... Some drive old okum thro ' each feam and rift , Their left - hand does the calking - iron guide , The rattling mallet with the right they lift . With boiling pitch another near at hand ( From friendly Sweden brought ) the feams inftops ...
... Some drive old okum thro ' each feam and rift , Their left - hand does the calking - iron guide , The rattling mallet with the right they lift . With boiling pitch another near at hand ( From friendly Sweden brought ) the feams inftops ...
Pàgina 122
... Some improvements had been already made in English numbers ; but the full force of our lan- guage was not yet felt ; the verfe that was fmooth was commonly feeble . If Cowley had fometimes a finished line , he had it by chance . Dryden ...
... Some improvements had been already made in English numbers ; but the full force of our lan- guage was not yet felt ; the verfe that was fmooth was commonly feeble . If Cowley had fometimes a finished line , he had it by chance . Dryden ...
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