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
... fhew his malice to the parfons . The two parts of the Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ) , are written with a feeming determination to glut the publick with dramatick wonders , to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of ...
... fhew his malice to the parfons . The two parts of the Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ) , are written with a feeming determination to glut the publick with dramatick wonders , to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of ...
Pàgina 19
... he does not deny the excellence ; but intends to fhew , that by ftudied mifconftruction every thing may be equally reprefented as ridiculous . After After fo much of Dryden's elegant animadverfions , juftice requires DRYDEN . 19.
... he does not deny the excellence ; but intends to fhew , that by ftudied mifconftruction every thing may be equally reprefented as ridiculous . After After fo much of Dryden's elegant animadverfions , juftice requires DRYDEN . 19.
Pàgina 20
... fhew me any fenfe " or thought in , or any thing but bombaft and " noife , he fhall make me believe every word in " his obfervations on Morocco fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter ...
... fhew me any fenfe " or thought in , or any thing but bombaft and " noife , he fhall make me believe every word in " his obfervations on Morocco fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter ...
Pàgina 35
... fhew how rafhly fatire is applied . It is faid that this farce was originally intended against Davenant , who , in the firft draught , was characterised by the name of Bilboa , Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . There is ...
... fhew how rafhly fatire is applied . It is faid that this farce was originally intended against Davenant , who , in the firft draught , was characterised by the name of Bilboa , Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . There is ...
Pàgina 42
... fhew it in its faireft form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance fufficiently attractive . It is natural to hope that a comprehensive is like- wife an elevated foul , and that whoever is wife is alfo honeft . I ...
... fhew it in its faireft form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance fufficiently attractive . It is natural to hope that a comprehensive is like- wife an elevated foul , and that whoever is wife is alfo honeft . I ...
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