The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 26.
Pàgina 28
... knowledge or confent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became at length a libel against " me . " Thefe copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
... knowledge or confent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became at length a libel against " me . " Thefe copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
Pàgina 39
... knowledge of poetical tranfactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the fubject is a medal ftruck on Lord Shaftesbury's efcape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he ...
... knowledge of poetical tranfactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the fubject is a medal ftruck on Lord Shaftesbury's efcape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he ...
Pàgina 45
... knowledge they contain is difgraced by the garb in which it is exhibited . One great fource of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is " he that wore as " many cow - hides upon his fhield as ...
... knowledge they contain is difgraced by the garb in which it is exhibited . One great fource of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is " he that wore as " many cow - hides upon his fhield as ...
Pàgina 56
... knowledge than he was communi- " cative of it ; but then his communication was by 66 86 no means pedantick , or impofed upon the con- " versation , but juft fuch , and went fo far , as , by " the natural turn of the converfation in ...
... knowledge than he was communi- " cative of it ; but then his communication was by 66 86 no means pedantick , or impofed upon the con- " versation , but juft fuch , and went fo far , as , by " the natural turn of the converfation in ...
Pàgina 69
... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domeftick manners of a man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as å critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly confidered as the father ...
... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domeftick manners of a man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as å critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly confidered as the father ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Addifon Æneid afterwards againſt almoft becauſe Cato cenfure character Charles Dryden compofitions confidered converfation criticifm criticks defign defire difcovered Dryden duke eafily eafy earl Effay elegant English faid fame fatire favour fays fcenes fecond feems feen feldom fent fentence fentiments feven fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon friends ftage ftill ftudy fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fupply fuppofed fure genius Hiftory himſelf houfe inftruction intereft John Dryden Juba judgement juft Juvenal king laft leaft lefs lord lord Halifax mafter Marriage à-la-mode moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never obferved occafion paffages paffed paffions perfon perhaps play pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed racters raiſed reafon reft reprefented rhyme Sempronius Steele Syphax Tatler thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tragedy tranflated Tyrannick Love verfes verfion Virgil Whig whofe worfe write written