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 1
... Such a fortune ought to have fecured him from that poverty which feems always to have oppreffed him ; or , if he had wasted It , to have made him afhamed of publifhing his neceffities . But though he had niany enemies , VOL . II . B who ...
... Such a fortune ought to have fecured him from that poverty which feems always to have oppreffed him ; or , if he had wasted It , to have made him afhamed of publifhing his neceffities . But though he had niany enemies , VOL . II . B who ...
Pàgina 15
... fools and nonfenfe . " Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and ter- rour ; rage with little provocation , and terrour with with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus DRYDEN . 15.
... fools and nonfenfe . " Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and ter- rour ; rage with little provocation , and terrour with with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus DRYDEN . 15.
Pàgina 27
... ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of his ...
... ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of his ...
Pàgina 37
... Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fonie degree of indignation ; but it is not , I fuppofe , fo much to be inferred , that Dryden wanted the ' lite- rature neceffary to the perufal of Tacitus , as that , confidering himself ...
... Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fonie degree of indignation ; but it is not , I fuppofe , fo much to be inferred , that Dryden wanted the ' lite- rature neceffary to the perufal of Tacitus , as that , confidering himself ...
Pàgina 40
... Such are the revolutions of fame , or fuch is the prevalence of fashion , that the man whofe works have not yet been thought to deferve the care of collecting them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whofe latter years were spent ...
... Such are the revolutions of fame , or fuch is the prevalence of fashion , that the man whofe works have not yet been thought to deferve the care of collecting them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whofe latter years were spent ...
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