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 3
... verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great expectations of the rifing poet . When the king was reftored , Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opi- nion , or his ...
... verses of Sprat and Wal- ler on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great expectations of the rifing poet . When the king was reftored , Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opi- nion , or his ...
Pàgina 86
... verses to the lord chancellor Clarendon , two years afterwards , is a conceit fo hopeless at the firft view , that few would have attempted it ; and fo fuccefsfully laboured , that though at last it gives the reader more perplexity than ...
... verses to the lord chancellor Clarendon , two years afterwards , is a conceit fo hopeless at the firft view , that few would have attempted it ; and fo fuccefsfully laboured , that though at last it gives the reader more perplexity than ...
Pàgina 211
... verses in queftion were not an addrefs to the famous Dr. Sacheverell , but to a very ingenious gentleman of the fame name , who died young , fuppofed to be a Mankfman , for that he wrote the history of the Ifle of Man . That this perfon ...
... verses in queftion were not an addrefs to the famous Dr. Sacheverell , but to a very ingenious gentleman of the fame name , who died young , fuppofed to be a Mankfman , for that he wrote the history of the Ifle of Man . That this perfon ...
Pàgina 269
... verses seems never to have engaged much of his But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too fmooth in Cato . care . Addison is now to be confidered as a critick ; a name which the prefent generation is fcarcely wil- ling to allow ...
... verses seems never to have engaged much of his But his lines are very smooth in Rosamond , and too fmooth in Cato . care . Addison is now to be confidered as a critick ; a name which the prefent generation is fcarcely wil- ling to allow ...
Pàgina 287
... verses are often infipid ; but his memoirs are lively and agreeable : he had the perfpicuity and elegance of an hiftorian , but not the fire and fancy of a poet . END OF THE SECOND VOLUME . Printed by NICHOLS and SON , Red Lion Paffage ...
... verses are often infipid ; but his memoirs are lively and agreeable : he had the perfpicuity and elegance of an hiftorian , but not the fire and fancy of a poet . END OF THE SECOND VOLUME . Printed by NICHOLS and SON , Red Lion Paffage ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
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