The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 50
... Subject to change , will fcarce be a type of this , Now when the client , whofe last hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ; when the condemned man , Who when he opes his eyes , muft fhut them then 5 Again Again by death , although sad watch ...
... Subject to change , will fcarce be a type of this , Now when the client , whofe last hearing is To - morrow , fleeps ; when the condemned man , Who when he opes his eyes , muft fhut them then 5 Again Again by death , although sad watch ...
Pàgina 72
... subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arifes from the known measure of the lines , and uniform ftructure of the ftanzas , by which the voice is ...
... subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arifes from the known measure of the lines , and uniform ftructure of the ftanzas , by which the voice is ...
Pàgina 75
... subject , and partly in the per- formance of the work . 1 Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and ...
... subject , and partly in the per- formance of the work . 1 Sacred History has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and ...
Pàgina 78
... subject , thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiofity . Nothing can be more difgufting than a narrative fpangied with conceits ...
... subject , thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiofity . Nothing can be more difgufting than a narrative fpangied with conceits ...
Pàgina 87
... had in common with others : but his fentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copioufnefs of knowledge , that G 4 fome- fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind COWLEY . 87.
... had in common with others : but his fentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ; and fuch was his copioufnefs of knowledge , that G 4 fome- fomething at once remote and applicable rushed into his mind COWLEY . 87.
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