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 1
... last biographer , Derrick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe particu- lars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
... last biographer , Derrick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe particu- lars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
Pàgina 18
... by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . In the firft Letter his obfervation is only general : In 18 DRYDE N.
... by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . In the firft Letter his obfervation is only general : In 18 DRYDE N.
Pàgina 86
... last it gives the reader more perplexity than pleasure , and feems hardly worth the ftudy that it cofts , yet it must be valued as a proof of a mind at once fubtle and com . prehenfive : In open profpect nothing bounds our eye , Until ...
... last it gives the reader more perplexity than pleasure , and feems hardly worth the ftudy that it cofts , yet it must be valued as a proof of a mind at once fubtle and com . prehenfive : In open profpect nothing bounds our eye , Until ...
Pàgina 99
... last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant fhall devour , The trumpet fhall be heard on high , The dead fhall live , the living die . And mufick fhall untune the tky . Of his skill in elegy he has given a fpecimen F 2 Of DRYDEN . 99.
... last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant fhall devour , The trumpet fhall be heard on high , The dead fhall live , the living die . And mufick fhall untune the tky . Of his skill in elegy he has given a fpecimen F 2 Of DRYDEN . 99.
Pàgina 100
... last , Who then , perhaps , were offering vows in vain , For his long life , and for his happy reign ; So flowly by degrees , unwilling Fame Did matchlefs Eleonora's fate proclaim , Till publick as the lofs the news became . J This is ...
... last , Who then , perhaps , were offering vows in vain , For his long life , and for his happy reign ; So flowly by degrees , unwilling Fame Did matchlefs Eleonora's fate proclaim , Till publick as the lofs the news became . J This is ...
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