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 2
... fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox ; and his poet has made of the puftules firft rofe- buds , and ...
... fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation . Lord Haftings died of the fmall - pox ; and his poet has made of the puftules firft rofe- buds , and ...
Pàgina 3
... fuch numbers , that it produced neither hatred nor difgrace ! if he changed , he changed with the nation . It was , however , not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praifed the new king in a fe ...
... fuch numbers , that it produced neither hatred nor difgrace ! if he changed , he changed with the nation . It was , however , not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praifed the new king in a fe ...
Pàgina 4
... - vailed , or the cenfure of criticks , which was often poignant , and often juft ; but with fuch a degree of reputation as made him at leaft fecure of being heard , heard , whatever might be the final determination of the DRYDEN .
... - vailed , or the cenfure of criticks , which was often poignant , and often juft ; but with fuch a degree of reputation as made him at leaft fecure of being heard , heard , whatever might be the final determination of the DRYDEN .
Pàgina 9
... fuch as could not ea fily enter into any other man . ' s : " " The 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 ...
... fuch as could not ea fily enter into any other man . ' s : " " The 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 ...
Pàgina 12
... fuch clog- ging , thick , indigeftible ftuff . But this is but a " tafte to stay the ftomach ; we shall have a more " plentiful mess presently . " Now to dish up the poet's broth , that I pro- " mised : For when we're dead , and our ...
... fuch clog- ging , thick , indigeftible ftuff . But this is but a " tafte to stay the ftomach ; we shall have a more " plentiful mess presently . " Now to dish up the poet's broth , that I pro- " mised : For when we're dead , and our ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
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