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 i
... themselves , could not be better fatif- fied with all the Juftice that might be paid them , in reviving their Perfor- mances ; than with fo much Credit as they may receive from your LADY- SHIP'S Approbation . I am but their Sollicitor ...
... themselves , could not be better fatif- fied with all the Juftice that might be paid them , in reviving their Perfor- mances ; than with fo much Credit as they may receive from your LADY- SHIP'S Approbation . I am but their Sollicitor ...
Pàgina iv
... themselves in their eftimates . The models of fome have been too narrow to be of any real or extenfive ufe . Others have made half their work confift of detached epi- thets , fuftian phrases , and dictionaries of rhyme . Some again , in ...
... themselves in their eftimates . The models of fome have been too narrow to be of any real or extenfive ufe . Others have made half their work confift of detached epi- thets , fuftian phrases , and dictionaries of rhyme . Some again , in ...
Pàgina v
... themselves have always admired , is fo far from being a compliment to them , that it must be an unpardonable partiality in their fense ; especially whilst they know , that the old vices and follies of mankind are per- petually reviving ...
... themselves have always admired , is fo far from being a compliment to them , that it must be an unpardonable partiality in their fense ; especially whilst they know , that the old vices and follies of mankind are per- petually reviving ...
Pàgina ix
... themselves . But what renders both these collections very defective , and prevents them from affording the redundant light , of which they were capable , is the little merit of the obfolete poets , from which they are in a great measure ...
... themselves . But what renders both these collections very defective , and prevents them from affording the redundant light , of which they were capable , is the little merit of the obfolete poets , from which they are in a great measure ...
Pàgina xxiii
... themselves ; an advantage , as we have obferved before , not in the power of every compiler . Great care has alfo been taken in pointing and print- ing ing them correctly , and punctually to af fign his The PREFACE . xxiii.
... themselves ; an advantage , as we have obferved before , not in the power of every compiler . Great care has alfo been taken in pointing and print- ing ing them correctly , and punctually to af fign his The PREFACE . xxiii.
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