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 33
... easily fa tisfied . His prologues had fuch reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not intro- duce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till , being ...
... easily fa tisfied . His prologues had fuch reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not intro- duce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till , being ...
Pàgina 41
... easily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as truth and intereft are not by any fatal ne- ceffity at variance , that one may by accident intro- duce the other . When opinions are ftruggling into popularity ...
... easily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as truth and intereft are not by any fatal ne- ceffity at variance , that one may by accident intro- duce the other . When opinions are ftruggling into popularity ...
Pàgina 46
... easily excused the labour of more tranfcription . Brown does not wholly forget past transactions : " You began , " fays Crites to Bayes , " a very dif- " ferent religion , and have not mended the matter in your laft choice . It was but ...
... easily excused the labour of more tranfcription . Brown does not wholly forget past transactions : " You began , " fays Crites to Bayes , " a very dif- " ferent religion , and have not mended the matter in your laft choice . It was but ...
Pàgina 77
... easily noted . Dryden is always another and the fame ; he does not exhibit a fecond time the fame elegances in the fame form , nor appears to have any art other than that of expreffing with clearness what he thinks with vigour . His ...
... easily noted . Dryden is always another and the fame ; he does not exhibit a fecond time the fame elegances in the fame form , nor appears to have any art other than that of expreffing with clearness what he thinks with vigour . His ...
Pàgina 84
... easily found : " Twas Monk , whom Providence defign'd to loofe Thofe real bonds falfe freedom did impofe . The bleffed faints that watch'd this turning scene Did from their stars with joyful wonder lean , To fee fmall clues draw vafteft ...
... easily found : " Twas Monk , whom Providence defign'd to loofe Thofe real bonds falfe freedom did impofe . The bleffed faints that watch'd this turning scene Did from their stars with joyful wonder lean , To fee fmall clues draw vafteft ...
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