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 10
... gives this character : " He's an ani- " mal of a moft deplored understanding , without " reading and converfation . His being is in a twi- 66 light of fenfe , and fome glimmering of thought , " which he can never fashion into wit or ...
... gives this character : " He's an ani- " mal of a moft deplored understanding , without " reading and converfation . His being is in a twi- 66 light of fenfe , and fome glimmering of thought , " which he can never fashion into wit or ...
Pàgina 21
... gives this poetical defcription of the ship " called the London : " The goodly London in her gallant trim , " The Phenix - daughter of the vanquifht old , " Like a rich bride does to the ocean fwim , " And on her fhadow rides in ...
... gives this poetical defcription of the ship " called the London : " The goodly London in her gallant trim , " The Phenix - daughter of the vanquifht old , " Like a rich bride does to the ocean fwim , " And on her fhadow rides in ...
Pàgina 22
... give , 66 Juftice , methinks , is not diftributive . To die or kill you is the alternative , " Rather than take your life , I will not live . " Obferve how prettily our author chops logick " in heroick verfe . Three fuch fuftian canting ...
... give , 66 Juftice , methinks , is not diftributive . To die or kill you is the alternative , " Rather than take your life , I will not live . " Obferve how prettily our author chops logick " in heroick verfe . Three fuch fuftian canting ...
Pàgina 28
... gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was in- duced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being difperfed abroad without my " knowledge or confent ; and every one gathering new faults , it ...
... gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was in- duced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being difperfed abroad without my " knowledge or confent ; and every one gathering new faults , it ...
Pàgina 31
... give " me leave to tell you , that you are no hero . " King Arthur ( 1691 ) is another opera . It was the laft work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited , and it does not feem to have been ever ...
... give " me leave to tell you , that you are no hero . " King Arthur ( 1691 ) is another opera . It was the laft work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited , and it does not feem to have been ever ...
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