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
... hand at fools , and " a great felicity in writing nonfenfe for them , " Fools they will be in fpite of him . His King , " his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - vil- " lain , nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of ...
... hand at fools , and " a great felicity in writing nonfenfe for them , " Fools they will be in fpite of him . His King , " his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - vil- " lain , nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of ...
Pàgina 27
... hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of ...
... hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill - imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of ...
Pàgina 34
... hands , employed upon this performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps pof- feffion of ... hand . The Rebearful was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ridiculing paffages in the Conqueft of Granada ...
... hands , employed upon this performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps pof- feffion of ... hand . The Rebearful was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ridiculing paffages in the Conqueft of Granada ...
Pàgina 36
... hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left , in that perplexity which it generally produces , a queftion which it was his intereft to fupprefs , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were ...
... hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left , in that perplexity which it generally produces , a queftion which it was his intereft to fupprefs , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were ...
Pàgina 37
... hands . Of the English Tacitus he tranflated the first book ; and , if Gor- don be credited , tranflated it from the French . Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fonie degree of indignation ; but it is not , I fuppofe , fo ...
... hands . Of the English Tacitus he tranflated the first book ; and , if Gor- don be credited , tranflated it from the French . Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fonie degree of indignation ; but it is not , I fuppofe , fo ...
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