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 23
... force , Or wind in volumes to their former courfe . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or " reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never " fo much , can never return to their former " courfe , unlefs he can fuppofe ...
... force , Or wind in volumes to their former courfe . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or " reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never " fo much , can never return to their former " courfe , unlefs he can fuppofe ...
Pàgina 34
... force of understanding , but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamph- lets not always at hand . The Rebearful was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ...
... force of understanding , but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamph- lets not always at hand . The Rebearful was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ...
Pàgina 63
... force himfelf upon me for an adverfary ; I contemn him too much to enter into competition with " him . " As for the reft of those who have written againft me , they are fuch fcoundrels that they " deferve not the leaft notice to be ...
... force himfelf upon me for an adverfary ; I contemn him too much to enter into competition with " him . " As for the reft of those who have written againft me , they are fuch fcoundrels that they " deferve not the leaft notice to be ...
Pàgina 77
... forces himself upon our efteem , we cannot refufe him to ftand high in his Own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and the fpritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all feems careless ...
... forces himself upon our efteem , we cannot refufe him to ftand high in his Own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and the fpritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is easy , nothing is feeble ; though all feems careless ...
Pàgina 87
... force , but not more pains employs . Such is the mighty fwiftnefs of your mind , That , like the earth's , it leaves our fenfe behind ; While you fo fmoothly turn and roll our sphere , That rapid motion does but reft appear . For as in ...
... force , but not more pains employs . Such is the mighty fwiftnefs of your mind , That , like the earth's , it leaves our fenfe behind ; While you fo fmoothly turn and roll our sphere , That rapid motion does but reft appear . For as in ...
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