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 17
... defign is to recommend piety . " I confidered that pleasure " was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the " bufinefs of a poet , as that the precepts and ex- " amples of piety were ...
... defign is to recommend piety . " I confidered that pleasure " was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the " bufinefs of a poet , as that the precepts and ex- " amples of piety were ...
Pàgina 21
... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks her guns of mighty ftrength , " Whofe low - laid mouths each mounting billowdaves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , " She feems a fea - wafp ...
... defign'd , " Goes on to fea , and knows not to retire . " With roomy decks her guns of mighty ftrength , " Whofe low - laid mouths each mounting billowdaves , Deep in her draught , and warlike in her length , " She feems a fea - wafp ...
Pàgina 29
... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays , hap- pened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , you know is great , the ftory ...
... defign in terms fo obfcure , that he feems afraid left his plan fhould be purloined , as , he fays , hap- pened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , you know is great , the ftory ...
Pàgina 35
... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its firft reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the drefs , and mimicked the manner ...
... defign was probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the perfonal fatire , to which it might owe its firft reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the drefs , and mimicked the manner ...
Pàgina 40
... • · by fome perlonal regard , he rarely writes upon a general topick . Soon after the acceffion of king James , when the defign of reconciling the nation to the church of of Rome became apparent , and the religion of the 40 DRYDEN .
... • · by fome perlonal regard , he rarely writes upon a general topick . Soon after the acceffion of king James , when the defign of reconciling the nation to the church of of Rome became apparent , and the religion of the 40 DRYDEN .
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