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
... muft excite will require a display more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what ca fual mention and uncertain ...
... muft excite will require a display more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what ca fual mention and uncertain ...
Pàgina 11
... muft conform by fmiles " to lightning , then my fmiles muft gild a ftorm too to gild with miles is a new invention of gilding . And gild a ftorm by being backed with Thunder is a part of the ftorm ; fo one part of the ftorm muft help to ...
... muft conform by fmiles " to lightning , then my fmiles muft gild a ftorm too to gild with miles is a new invention of gilding . And gild a ftorm by being backed with Thunder is a part of the ftorm ; fo one part of the ftorm muft help to ...
Pàgina 20
... 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 palace go , " And add new fire ...
... 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 palace go , " And add new fire ...
Pàgina 22
... low , " That I muft ftoop , ere I can give the blow . " But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , " That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . " Now " Now where that is , Almanzor's fate is fixt 22 DRYDEN .
... low , " That I muft ftoop , ere I can give the blow . " But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , " That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . " Now " Now where that is , Almanzor's fate is fixt 22 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 32
... muft have fet penury at defi- ance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now obtained . The playhoufe was abhorred by the Puritans , and avoided by thofe who defired the character of ...
... muft have fet penury at defi- ance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now obtained . The playhoufe was abhorred by the Puritans , and avoided by thofe who defired the character of ...
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