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 11
... fhould fay thus : " I will make my counterfeit fmiles look like a flattering ftone - horfe , which being backed with " a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am miftaken . " if nonfenfe is not here pretty thick fown . Sure " the poet ...
... fhould fay thus : " I will make my counterfeit fmiles look like a flattering ftone - horfe , which being backed with " a trooper , does but gild the battle . I am miftaken . " if nonfenfe is not here pretty thick fown . Sure " the poet ...
Pàgina 29
... 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 English , and nei- " ther too near the prefent times , nor too ...
... 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 English , and nei- " ther too near the prefent times , nor too ...
Pàgina 33
... fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness * Dr . Johnfon in this affertion was mifled by Langbaine . Only one of these plays appeared in 1678. Nor were there more than three in any one year . The dates are ...
... fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness * Dr . Johnfon in this affertion was mifled by Langbaine . Only one of these plays appeared in 1678. Nor were there more than three in any one year . The dates are ...
Pàgina 39
... fhould write twice on the fame occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot re- move , for want of a minuter knowledge of poetical tranfactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the fubject is a medal ftruck on Lord ...
... fhould write twice on the fame occafion . This is a difficulty which I cannot re- move , for want of a minuter knowledge of poetical tranfactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the fubject is a medal ftruck on Lord ...
Pàgina 41
... fhould by an art- ful and experienced difputant be made a Papist , overborn by the fudden violence of new and unex- pected arguments , or deceived by a reprefentation which fhews only the doubts ' on one part , and only the evidence on ...
... fhould by an art- ful and experienced difputant be made a Papist , overborn by the fudden violence of new and unex- pected arguments , or deceived by a reprefentation which fhews only the doubts ' on one part , and only the evidence on ...
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