The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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... criticks nor rivals did Dryden much mischief , unless they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent burfts of refentment give reafon to fufpect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of fome future ...
... criticks nor rivals did Dryden much mischief , unless they gained from his own temper the power of vexing him , which his frequent burfts of refentment give reafon to fufpect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of fome future ...
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... criticks , because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned , His laft work was his Fables , published in 1699 , in confequence , as is fuppofed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr. Tonfon ; by which ...
... criticks , because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned , His laft work was his Fables , published in 1699 , in confequence , as is fuppofed , of a contract now in the hands of Mr. Tonfon ; by which ...
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... criticks he is fometimes contemptuous , fometimes refentful , and sometimes submis- five . The writer who thinks his works formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He de- grades his own dignity by ...
... criticks he is fometimes contemptuous , fometimes refentful , and sometimes submis- five . The writer who thinks his works formed for duration , mistakes his interest when he mentions his enemies . He de- grades his own dignity by ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Among anfwers to criticks , no poetical attacks , or altercations , are to be included ; they are , like other poems , effufions of ge- nius , produced as much to obtain praise as ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Among anfwers to criticks , no poetical attacks , or altercations , are to be included ; they are , like other poems , effufions of ge- nius , produced as much to obtain praise as ...
Pàgina 95
... criticks was not the worst of his vexations ; he was much more disturbed by the importunities of want . His complaints of poverty are fo frequently re- peated , either with the dejection of weak- ness finking in helpless mifery , or the ...
... criticks was not the worst of his vexations ; he was much more disturbed by the importunities of want . His complaints of poverty are fo frequently re- peated , either with the dejection of weak- ness finking in helpless mifery , or the ...
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