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
... thoughts of our poets under their proper heads , has , no doubt , given birth to the feveral undertakings of this kind that have appeared in publick ; and , probably , to many others of the fame nature , which still fleep , or have ...
... thoughts of our poets under their proper heads , has , no doubt , given birth to the feveral undertakings of this kind that have appeared in publick ; and , probably , to many others of the fame nature , which still fleep , or have ...
Pàgina iv
... thoughts , have given us abundance of alloy with very little ore ; and , to fwell their volumes , have ftuffed them with useless matter , long tranflations , and paraphrafes of well - known originals . Some have con- fined their ...
... thoughts , have given us abundance of alloy with very little ore ; and , to fwell their volumes , have ftuffed them with useless matter , long tranflations , and paraphrafes of well - known originals . Some have con- fined their ...
Pàgina v
... thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or , at least , an equality with those they have inferted in their collec- tions , the dress of words only excepted . I would not derogate in the leaft from the praise of the more modern ...
... thoughts might often have claimed a preference , or , at least , an equality with those they have inferted in their collec- tions , the dress of words only excepted . I would not derogate in the leaft from the praise of the more modern ...
Pàgina vi
... thought to abound with fuch elegancies , that no lefs than two collections , principally from the poets of her time , were published in one year . One of these is called BELVE- DERE , Or , The Garden of the Mufes + . The author's name ...
... thought to abound with fuch elegancies , that no lefs than two collections , principally from the poets of her time , were published in one year . One of these is called BELVE- DERE , Or , The Garden of the Mufes + . The author's name ...
Pàgina ix
... thoughts , his prefumption in altering others , and his error in afcribing to one poet what had been wrote by another . This artifice , if real , does not prevent us from obferving his ill judgment in the choice of his au- thors ; and ...
... thoughts , his prefumption in altering others , and his error in afcribing to one poet what had been wrote by another . This artifice , if real , does not prevent us from obferving his ill judgment in the choice of his au- thors ; and ...
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