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 28
... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear to ...
... lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear to ...
Pàgina 41
... lived temp . Jac . I. was at firft a zealous Papift , and his brother William as earneft a Proteftant , but by mutual difputation each converted the other . Vide Fuller's Church Hiftory , p . 47. book X. H. changed ! changed it before ...
... lived temp . Jac . I. was at firft a zealous Papift , and his brother William as earneft a Proteftant , but by mutual difputation each converted the other . Vide Fuller's Church Hiftory , p . 47. book X. H. changed ! changed it before ...
Pàgina 59
... lived in familiarity with the highest perfons of his time . It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and thofe with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told , but ...
... lived in familiarity with the highest perfons of his time . It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pass a night with Dryden , and thofe with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told , but ...
Pàgina 121
... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into converfation fuch as fraicheur for coolness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into converfation fuch as fraicheur for coolness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
Pàgina 136
... is , in my opi- " nion , this ; that Shakspeare and Fletcher have " written to the genius of the age and nation in " which they lived ; for though nature , as he 65 objects , " objects , is the fame in all places , 736 DRYDEN.
... is , in my opi- " nion , this ; that Shakspeare and Fletcher have " written to the genius of the age and nation in " which they lived ; for though nature , as he 65 objects , " objects , is the fame in all places , 736 DRYDEN.
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