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 8
... without the name of the author . Langbaine charges it , like moft of the reft , with plagiarism ; and obferves , that the fong is tranflated from Voi- ture , ture , allowing however that both the fenfe and measure 8 DRYDEN .
... without the name of the author . Langbaine charges it , like moft of the reft , with plagiarism ; and obferves , that the fong is tranflated from Voi- ture , ture , allowing however that both the fenfe and measure 8 DRYDEN .
Pàgina 29
... reft were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent accounted the work in which he has admitted the feweft impro- prieties of ftyle or character ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral than critical , that by ...
... reft were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent accounted the work in which he has admitted the feweft impro- prieties of ftyle or character ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral than critical , that by ...
Pàgina 36
... reft ; and , as his adverfaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left , in that perplexity which it generally produces , a queftion which it was his intereft to fupprefs ...
... reft ; and , as his adverfaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wifely left , in that perplexity which it generally produces , a queftion which it was his intereft to fupprefs ...
Pàgina 52
... reft of the company by his defire kneeled alfo ; and the lady , being under a fudden furprize , " fainted away . As foon as the recovered her fpeech , the cried , No , no . Enough , gentle- men , replied he ; my lady is very good , the ...
... reft of the company by his defire kneeled alfo ; and the lady , being under a fudden furprize , " fainted away . As foon as the recovered her fpeech , the cried , No , no . Enough , gentle- men , replied he ; my lady is very good , the ...
Pàgina 57
... reft must be collected as it can from other teftimo- nies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very liberally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to ad- yance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was ...
... reft must be collected as it can from other teftimo- nies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very liberally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to ad- yance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was ...
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