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 2
... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation ...
... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch conceits as , notwith- ftanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in re- putation ...
Pàgina 5
... performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to ... performances ; it will be fit , however , to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are ...
... performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to ... performances ; it will be fit , however , to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are ...
Pàgina 25
... performance , written in time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtus of old animated the ...
... performance , written in time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtus of old animated the ...
Pàgina 33
... performance , which , though all Lang- baine's charges of plagiarifm fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness * Dr . Johnfon in this affertion was mifled by Langbaine . Only one of these plays appeared in ...
... performance , which , though all Lang- baine's charges of plagiarifm fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness * Dr . Johnfon in this affertion was mifled by Langbaine . Only one of these plays appeared in ...
Pàgina 34
... performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps pof- feffion of the stage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written with- out fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To ...
... performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps pof- feffion of the stage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written with- out fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To ...
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