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
... effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also pri- vation ; yet who has made any difficulty of affign- ing to Death ...
... effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also pri- vation ; yet who has made any difficulty of affign- ing to Death ...
Pàgina 9
... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Syco- rax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never feen a man , is in this brought ...
... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Syco- rax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never feen a man , is in this brought ...
Pàgina 24
... man to walk with- " out feet ; for if he fuppofes the tempeft to be " fomething diftinct from the wind , yet , as being " the effect of wind only , to come before the " caufe 66 " caufé is a little prepofterous : fo that 24 . DRYDEN .
... man to walk with- " out feet ; for if he fuppofes the tempeft to be " fomething diftinct from the wind , yet , as being " the effect of wind only , to come before the " caufe 66 " caufé is a little prepofterous : fo that 24 . DRYDEN .
Pàgina 42
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The version of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when fhe ...
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The version of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when fhe ...
Pàgina 59
... His works afford too many examples of diffolute licentioufnefs , and abject adulation ; but they were probably , like his merriment , artificial and con- ftrained ; D 6 ftrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and DRYDEN . 59.
... His works afford too many examples of diffolute licentioufnefs , and abject adulation ; but they were probably , like his merriment , artificial and con- ftrained ; D 6 ftrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and DRYDEN . 59.
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