The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina iv
... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and unforeseen , I must be fuppofed to have ...
... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and unforeseen , I must be fuppofed to have ...
Pàgina 24
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Pàgina 28
... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
Pàgina 32
... REMARKs are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ; was eminently ...
... REMARKs are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ; was eminently ...
Pàgina 57
... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to Eng- lish literature , and fhew fuch skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to Eng- lish literature , and fhew fuch skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
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