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 36
... intereft to fupprefs , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely to ex- amine . Though the life of a writer , from about thirty- five to fixty - three , may be fuppofed to have been fufficiently fufficiently buffed by ...
... intereft to fupprefs , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely to ex- amine . Though the life of a writer , from about thirty- five to fixty - three , may be fuppofed to have been fufficiently fufficiently buffed by ...
Pàgina 41
... intereft . He that never finds his error till it hinders his progrefs towards wealth or honour , will not be thought to love Truth only for herself . Yet it may easily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as ...
... intereft . He that never finds his error till it hinders his progrefs towards wealth or honour , will not be thought to love Truth only for herself . Yet it may easily happen that information may come at a commodious time ; and , as ...
Pàgina 61
... intereft . There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion , that look on grandeur with undiftinguishing re- verence , and difcover no defect where there is ele- vation of rank and affluence of riches .. With his praifes of others and ...
... intereft . There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion , that look on grandeur with undiftinguishing re- verence , and difcover no defect where there is ele- vation of rank and affluence of riches .. With his praifes of others and ...
Pàgina 82
... princes the publick has an intereft ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always con- idered as bufinefs for the Mufe . But after fo many many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges 82 DRY DE N.
... princes the publick has an intereft ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always con- idered as bufinefs for the Mufe . But after fo many many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges 82 DRY DE N.
Pàgina 111
... Intereft thy greatnefs in our mean affairs , " And ufe thyfelf betimes to hear our prayers . " Which is fuch a wretched perverfion of Virgil's noble thought as Vicars would have blufh'd at ; but Mr. Ogilby makes us fome amends , by his ...
... Intereft thy greatnefs in our mean affairs , " And ufe thyfelf betimes to hear our prayers . " Which is fuch a wretched perverfion of Virgil's noble thought as Vicars would have blufh'd at ; but Mr. Ogilby makes us fome amends , by his ...
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