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 13
... please appetite , and indulge luxury ; but it is " alfo phyfical , being an approved medicine to " purge choler : for it is propounded by Morena , " as a receipt to cure their fathers of their cholerick " humours : and , were it written ...
... please appetite , and indulge luxury ; but it is " alfo phyfical , being an approved medicine to " purge choler : for it is propounded by Morena , " as a receipt to cure their fathers of their cholerick " humours : and , were it written ...
Pàgina 59
... please fuperiors is not the loweft kind of merit . The merit of pleafing muft , however , be efti- mated by the means . Favour is not always gained by good actions or laudable qualities . Careffes and preferments are often beftowed on ...
... please fuperiors is not the loweft kind of merit . The merit of pleafing muft , however , be efti- mated by the means . Favour is not always gained by good actions or laudable qualities . Careffes and preferments are often beftowed on ...
Pàgina 83
... please his ear with the ftanza of four lines alter- nately rhymed . Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in this early production no traces of Donne's E - 6- Donne's or Jonfon's ruggedness ; but he did not fo DRYDEN . 83.
... please his ear with the ftanza of four lines alter- nately rhymed . Dryden very early formed his verfification : there are in this early production no traces of Donne's E - 6- Donne's or Jonfon's ruggedness ; but he did not fo DRYDEN . 83.
Pàgina 137
... please the Athenians , than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only fhews " that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; " but the poet's bufinefs is certainly to please the audience . " Whether our English ...
... please the Athenians , than Shakespeare and Fletcher to please the English , it only fhews " that the Athenians were a more judicious people ; " but the poet's bufinefs is certainly to please the audience . " Whether our English ...
Pàgina 160
... please the people is the purpose , deferves regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a story which we are accustomed to reject as falfe , and the manners are fo diftant from ...
... please the people is the purpose , deferves regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a story which we are accustomed to reject as falfe , and the manners are fo diftant from ...
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