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 2
... death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox ; and ...
... death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox ; and ...
Pàgina 3
... death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he hecame a public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroick Stanzas on the late Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise ...
... death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he hecame a public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroick Stanzas on the late Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise ...
Pàgina 4
... Death is also pri- vation ; yet who has made any difficulty of affign- ing to Death a Dart and the power of ftriking ? In fettling the order of his works there is fome difficulty ; for , even when they are important enough to be ...
... Death is also pri- vation ; yet who has made any difficulty of affign- ing to Death a Dart and the power of ftriking ? In fettling the order of his works there is fome difficulty ; for , even when they are important enough to be ...
Pàgina 11
... death , Than the infection that attends that breath . " That attends that breath . The poet is at breath again ; breath can never ' fcape him ; and here " he brings in a breath that must be infectious with , pronouncing a fentence ; and ...
... death , Than the infection that attends that breath . " That attends that breath . The poet is at breath again ; breath can never ' fcape him ; and here " he brings in a breath that must be infectious with , pronouncing a fentence ; and ...
Pàgina 12
... death their quarrel ends , Whom living we made foes , dead we'll make friends . " If this be not a very liberal mefs , I will refer myfelf to the ftomach of any moderate gueft . " And " And a rare mefs it is , far excelling 12 DRYDEN .
... death their quarrel ends , Whom living we made foes , dead we'll make friends . " If this be not a very liberal mefs , I will refer myfelf to the ftomach of any moderate gueft . " And " And a rare mefs it is , far excelling 12 DRYDEN .
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