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 7
... thing that is not now eafily to be explained . Dry den , in his dedication to the Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated ...
... thing that is not now eafily to be explained . Dry den , in his dedication to the Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated ...
Pàgina 10
... thing either " naturally or justly ! " This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a heavy hand at fools , and " a great felicity in writing nonfenfe for ...
... thing either " naturally or justly ! " This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a heavy hand at fools , and " a great felicity in writing nonfenfe for ...
Pàgina 11
... thing . And this lightning must " gild a form . Now if I 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 ...
... thing . And this lightning must " gild a form . Now if I 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 ...
Pàgina 19
... thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analyfing his expreffions , he tries the fame experiment upon the fame defcrip- tion of ...
... thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analyfing his expreffions , he tries the fame experiment upon the fame defcrip- tion of ...
Pàgina 20
... thing but bombaft and " noife , he fhall make me believe every word in " his obfervations on Morocco fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter fphere , " Till I find out new worlds , and ...
... thing but bombaft and " noife , he fhall make me believe every word in " his obfervations on Morocco fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter fphere , " Till I find out new worlds , and ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
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