The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina iv
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best au- thority for his plays and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chro- nology , will publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is er ...
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best au- thority for his plays and if I fhall hereafter obtain a more correct chro- nology , will publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is er ...
Pàgina 18
... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that when they told Cowley how little fa- " vour had been fhewn him , he received the " news of his ill fuccefs , not with fo much " firmness as might ...
... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that when they told Cowley how little fa- " vour had been fhewn him , he received the " news of his ill fuccefs , not with fo much " firmness as might ...
Pàgina 26
... Dryden con- feffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they furpass him in poetry . If Wit be well defcribed by Pope , as being , that which has been often thought , " but was never ...
... Dryden con- feffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they furpass him in poetry . If Wit be well defcribed by Pope , as being , that which has been often thought , " but was never ...
Pàgina 50
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To morrow's bufinefs , when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their last ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou feeft me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To morrow's bufinefs , when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their last ...
Pàgina 57
... Dryden could have fup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigo- roufly begun , and happily concluded , con- tain some hints of criticism very justly con- ceived and happily expreffed . Cowley's ...
... Dryden could have fup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigo- roufly begun , and happily concluded , con- tain some hints of criticism very justly con- ceived and happily expreffed . Cowley's ...
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