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 39
... Pope fays , falfely , to Sommers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whofefoever it was , has much virulence , and fome spritelinefs . The writer tells all the ill that he can collect both of Dryden and his friends . The poem ...
... Pope fays , falfely , to Sommers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whofefoever it was , has much virulence , and fome spritelinefs . The writer tells all the ill that he can collect both of Dryden and his friends . The poem ...
Pàgina 47
... Pope himfelf declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diverfified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorfet , when as chamberlain he was conftrained to eject Dryden from his office ...
... Pope himfelf declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diverfified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorfet , when as chamberlain he was conftrained to eject Dryden from his office ...
Pàgina 50
... Pope , " The Fairest of " Criticks , " because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned . His laft work was his Fables , publifhed in con- fequence , as is fuppofed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr ...
... Pope , " The Fairest of " Criticks , " because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned . His laft work was his Fables , publifhed in con- fequence , as is fuppofed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr ...
Pàgina 55
... Pope Clement the XIth ; and , vifiting England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to fwim acrofs the Thames at Windsor . John was author of a comedy called The Hufband his own Cuckold . He is faid to have died at Rome . Henry entered ...
... Pope Clement the XIth ; and , vifiting England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to fwim acrofs the Thames at Windsor . John was author of a comedy called The Hufband his own Cuckold . He is faid to have died at Rome . Henry entered ...
Pàgina 73
... Pope's Odyffey , produces what he thinks an unconquera- ble quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in favour of tranflating an epick poem into blank verfe ; but he forgets that when his author at- tempted the Iliad , fome years ...
... Pope's Odyffey , produces what he thinks an unconquera- ble quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in favour of tranflating an epick poem into blank verfe ; but he forgets that when his author at- tempted the Iliad , fome years ...
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