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 17
... leave " that employment altogether to the clergy , were " to forget that religion was first taught in verse , " which the lazinefs or dulnefs of fucceeding " priesthood turned afterwards into profe . " Thus foolishly could Dryden write ...
... leave " that employment altogether to the clergy , were " to forget that religion was first taught in verse , " which the lazinefs or dulnefs of fucceeding " priesthood turned afterwards into profe . " Thus foolishly could Dryden write ...
Pàgina 20
... leave , " & c . " So fphire muft not be fenfe , unless it relates to a " circular motion about a globe , in which fenfe " the aftronomers use it . I would defire him to " expound thofe lines in Granada : " I'll to the turrets of the ...
... leave , " & c . " So fphire muft not be fenfe , unless it relates to a " circular motion about a globe , in which fenfe " the aftronomers use it . I would defire him to " expound thofe lines in Granada : " I'll to the turrets of the ...
Pàgina 22
... Leave months and weeks behind thee in thy race , " But furely the Sun , whether he flies a lover's or not a lover's pace , leaves weeks and months , 66 nay years too , behind him in his race . " Poor Robin , or any other of the Philo ...
... Leave months and weeks behind thee in thy race , " But furely the Sun , whether he flies a lover's or not a lover's pace , leaves weeks and months , 66 nay years too , behind him in his race . " Poor Robin , or any other of the Philo ...
Pàgina 30
... leave a ftrong impreffion , it continued long to attract attention . Amidft the diftreffes of princes , and the viciffitudes of empire , are inferted feveral fcenes which the writer in- tended for comick ; but which , I fuppofe , that ...
... leave a ftrong impreffion , it continued long to attract attention . Amidft the diftreffes of princes , and the viciffitudes of empire , are inferted feveral fcenes which the writer in- tended for comick ; but which , I fuppofe , that ...
Pàgina 31
... 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 brought ...
... 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 brought ...
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