The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 72
... supplied smoothness of tranfition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregu larity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poefy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered ...
... supplied smoothness of tranfition and continuity of thought . It is urged by Dr. Sprat , that the irregu larity of numbers is the very thing which makes that kind of poefy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered ...
Pàgina 84
... fciences and ftudies , in oppofition to the general notions supplied by a wide survey of life and nature , Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more more frequently than Taffo . I know not , indeed 84 COWLEY .
... fciences and ftudies , in oppofition to the general notions supplied by a wide survey of life and nature , Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more more frequently than Taffo . I know not , indeed 84 COWLEY .
Pàgina 196
... supplied the want of fight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the follow- ing account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our " author had daily about him one or other " to read , fome perfons of man's estate , " who ...
... supplied the want of fight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the follow- ing account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our " author had daily about him one or other " to read , fome perfons of man's estate , " who ...
Pàgina 365
... supplied him with another fubject ; and he exerted his imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not poffible to read , without fome con- tempt and indignation , poems of the fame ...
... supplied him with another fubject ; and he exerted his imagination , his elegance , and his melody , with equal alacrity , for Charles the Second . It is not poffible to read , without fome con- tempt and indignation , poems of the fame ...
Pàgina 385
... supplied with grand as with foft images ; for beauty is more eafily found than magua- nimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , re . ftrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the flightest matter . He ...
... supplied with grand as with foft images ; for beauty is more eafily found than magua- nimity . The delicacy , which he cultivated , re . ftrains him to a certain nicety and caution , even when he writes upon the flightest matter . He ...
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