The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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Pàgina 57
... believe , that those who had fubfcribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for fuch an accident , have withdrawn their con◅ tributions . He was buried among the poets in Westminster Abbey , where , though the duke of ...
... believe , that those who had fubfcribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for fuch an accident , have withdrawn their con◅ tributions . He was buried among the poets in Westminster Abbey , where , though the duke of ...
Pàgina 60
... believe ? * He has been defcribed as magifterially prefiding over the younger writers , and affuming the diftri bution of poetical fame ; but he who excels has a right to teach , and he whofe judgment is incon- teftable may without ...
... believe ? * He has been defcribed as magifterially prefiding over the younger writers , and affuming the diftri bution of poetical fame ; but he who excels has a right to teach , and he whofe judgment is incon- teftable may without ...
Pàgina 61
... believe what an enemy fays of him when he likewise says it of him- felf . But whatever was his character as a com- panion , it appears that he lived in familiarity with the highest perfons of his time . It is related by Carte of the ...
... believe what an enemy fays of him when he likewise says it of him- felf . But whatever was his character as a com- panion , it appears that he lived in familiarity with the highest perfons of his time . It is related by Carte of the ...
Pàgina 71
... believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the effects ; for in one of his prefaces he complains of those , who , being intrusted with the diftribution of the Prince's bounty , fuffer thofe that depend upon it to languish in penury . Of ...
... believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the effects ; for in one of his prefaces he complains of those , who , being intrusted with the diftribution of the Prince's bounty , fuffer thofe that depend upon it to languish in penury . Of ...
Pàgina 79
... believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various converfation , by a quick apprehenfion , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digeftion ; by ...
... believe that the knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various converfation , by a quick apprehenfion , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digeftion ; by ...
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