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
... died of the fmall - pox ; and his poet has made of the puftules firft rofe- buds , and then gems ; at laft exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corpfe might feem a conftellation . At the ...
... died of the fmall - pox ; and his poet has made of the puftules firft rofe- buds , and then gems ; at laft exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corpfe might feem a conftellation . At the ...
Pàgina 40
... 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 intermediate parts were always ...
... 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 intermediate parts were always ...
Pàgina 50
... pro- ject went no further . 1 The time was now at hand which was to put an end to all his fchemes and labours . On the first of May , 1701 , having been fome time , as he tells us , us , a cripple in his limbs , he died 50 DRYDEN .
... pro- ject went no further . 1 The time was now at hand which was to put an end to all his fchemes and labours . On the first of May , 1701 , having been fome time , as he tells us , us , a cripple in his limbs , he died 50 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 51
... died in Gerrard- ftreet , of a mortification in his leg . There is extant a wild story relating to fome vexatious ... dying on the Wednesday morn- ing , Dr. Thomas Sprat , then bishop of Rochef- " ter and dean of Westminster , fent the ...
... died in Gerrard- ftreet , of a mortification in his leg . There is extant a wild story relating to fome vexatious ... dying on the Wednesday morn- ing , Dr. Thomas Sprat , then bishop of Rochef- " ter and dean of Westminster , fent the ...
Pàgina 55
... died at Rome . Henry entered into fome religious order . It is fome proof of Dryden's fincerity in his fecond re- › ligion , that he taught it to his fons . A man , confcious of hypocritical profeffion in himself , is not likely to ...
... died at Rome . Henry entered into fome religious order . It is fome proof of Dryden's fincerity in his fecond re- › ligion , that he taught it to his fons . A man , confcious of hypocritical profeffion in himself , is not likely to ...
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