The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 65
... less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , be very properly confulted as a com- it may mentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every ...
... less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , be very properly confulted as a com- it may mentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every ...
Pàgina 118
... less skilful , or at leaft lefs dexterous in the use of words ; and though they had been more frequent , they could only have leffened the grace , not the ftrength of his compofition . He is one of the writers that improved our taste ...
... less skilful , or at leaft lefs dexterous in the use of words ; and though they had been more frequent , they could only have leffened the grace , not the ftrength of his compofition . He is one of the writers that improved our taste ...
Pàgina 216
... less nice than himself . These preludes to his future labours are in Italian , Latin , and English . Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit ...
... less nice than himself . These preludes to his future labours are in Italian , Latin , and English . Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit ...
Pàgina 281
... less in- telligible , and less striking . What Cicero fays of philofophy is true likewife of wit and humour , that time effaces the fictions of opinion , and confirms the determinations Į of " of Nature . " Such manners as depend upon ...
... less in- telligible , and less striking . What Cicero fays of philofophy is true likewife of wit and humour , that time effaces the fictions of opinion , and confirms the determinations Į of " of Nature . " Such manners as depend upon ...
Pàgina 292
... less and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one and thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a ftate of weakness and decay . At At this time he ...
... less and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one and thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a ftate of weakness and decay . At At this time he ...
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