The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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Pàgina iii
... nature , which still fleep , or have expired in manufcript . The advantage alfo arifing from fuch collections , may have had no fmall fhare in inducing feveral to make them publick For with what fuccefs may not an author flatter himself ...
... nature , which still fleep , or have expired in manufcript . The advantage alfo arifing from fuch collections , may have had no fmall fhare in inducing feveral to make them publick For with what fuccefs may not an author flatter himself ...
Pàgina vi
... nature , were more * numerous than any other kind of writings in our language . Accordingly , in the latter end of it , they were thought to abound with fuch elegancies , that no lefs than two collections , principally from the poets of ...
... nature , were more * numerous than any other kind of writings in our language . Accordingly , in the latter end of it , they were thought to abound with fuch elegancies , that no lefs than two collections , principally from the poets of ...
Pàgina viii
... nature in this performance , which is , the collec- tor's having omitted to annex the poets names to his citations ; which leaves room to fufpect , that he was afraid of being de- tected of having mangled his originals egregiously in ...
... nature in this performance , which is , the collec- tor's having omitted to annex the poets names to his citations ; which leaves room to fufpect , that he was afraid of being de- tected of having mangled his originals egregiously in ...
Pàgina x
... natural knowledge in the paffions of men , and our moral and po- litical knowledge in their fentiments and plots ; I fay , whoever have obferved these characteristicks of our plays , would not fear the cenfure of Sir Thomas , or the ...
... natural knowledge in the paffions of men , and our moral and po- litical knowledge in their fentiments and plots ; I fay , whoever have obferved these characteristicks of our plays , would not fear the cenfure of Sir Thomas , or the ...
Pàgina xiv
... nature , bave mistaken their fondness to rhyme , or neceffity of writing , for a true genius of poetry , and lawful call of Apollo , than , ' he tells us , he should be willing to have • laid to his charge . I fhall not object to fome ...
... nature , bave mistaken their fondness to rhyme , or neceffity of writing , for a true genius of poetry , and lawful call of Apollo , than , ' he tells us , he should be willing to have • laid to his charge . I fhall not object to fome ...
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