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 4
... collected , that in 1663 , in the thirty- fecond year of his life , he commenced a writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceflity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed ...
... collected , that in 1663 , in the thirty- fecond year of his life , he commenced a writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceflity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed ...
Pàgina 40
... collecting them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and carrying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the beginning and end were occafionally varied , but the ...
... collecting them , who died forgotten in an hospital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and carrying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the beginning and end were occafionally varied , but the ...
Pàgina 57
... collected as it can from other teftimo- nies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very liberally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to ad- yance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was certainly no ...
... collected as it can from other teftimo- nies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very liberally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to ad- yance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was certainly no ...
Pàgina 75
... collected , and neg- ligently scattered . Yet it cannot be faid that his genius is ever un- provided of matter , or that his fancy languishes in penury of ideas . His works abound with know- ledge , and fparkle with illuftrations ...
... collected , and neg- ligently scattered . Yet it cannot be faid that his genius is ever un- provided of matter , or that his fancy languishes in penury of ideas . His works abound with know- ledge , and fparkle with illuftrations ...
Pàgina 88
... collected all his powers ; and after this he did not often bring upon his anvil fuch ftubborn and unmalleable thoughts ; but , as a fpecimen of his abilities to unite the moft : unfociable matter , he has concluded with lines , of which ...
... collected all his powers ; and after this he did not often bring upon his anvil fuch ftubborn and unmalleable thoughts ; but , as a fpecimen of his abilities to unite the moft : unfociable matter , he has concluded with lines , of which ...
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