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
... pleasure " was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the " bufinefs of a poet , as that the precepts and ex- " amples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave " that employment ...
... pleasure " was not the only end of poefy , and that even the " inftructions of morality were not fo wholly the " bufinefs of a poet , as that the precepts and ex- " amples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave " that employment ...
Pàgina 29
... pleasure . This play is addreffed to the Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himfelf , if not a poet , yet a writer of verfes , and a critick . In this addrefs Dryden gave the first hints of his in- tention to write an ...
... pleasure . This play is addreffed to the Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himfelf , if not a poet , yet a writer of verfes , and a critick . In this addrefs Dryden gave the first hints of his in- tention to write an ...
Pàgina 45
... pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is " he that wore as " many cow - hides upon his fhield as would have " furnished half the king's army with fhoe - leather . " Being asked whether he had ...
... pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is " he that wore as " many cow - hides upon his fhield as would have " furnished half the king's army with fhoe - leather . " Being asked whether he had ...
Pàgina 59
... pleasure , or the flatterers of vanity . Dryden has never been charged with any perfonal agency unworthy of a good character : he abetted vice and vanity only with his pen . One of his enemies has accufed him of lewdnefs in his ...
... pleasure , or the flatterers of vanity . Dryden has never been charged with any perfonal agency unworthy of a good character : he abetted vice and vanity only with his pen . One of his enemies has accufed him of lewdnefs in his ...
Pàgina 60
... pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickednefs , for the fake of spreading the contagion in fociety ; I wish not to conceal or excufe the depravity . Such degradation of ...
... pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickednefs , for the fake of spreading the contagion in fociety ; I wish not to conceal or excufe the depravity . Such degradation of ...
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