The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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Pàgina 50
... reader cannot but rejoice that this pro- ject went no further . 1 The time was now at hand which was to put an end to all his fchemes and labours . On the first of May , 1701 , having been fome time , as he tells us , us , a cripple in ...
... reader cannot but rejoice that this pro- ject went no further . 1 The time was now at hand which was to put an end to all his fchemes and labours . On the first of May , 1701 , having been fome time , as he tells us , us , a cripple in ...
Pàgina 73
... reader ; but his occafional and particular pofitions were fometimes interested , fometimes negligent , and fometimes ca- pricious . It is not without reafon that Trapp , fpeaking of the praifes which he beftows on Pa- Jamon and Arcite ...
... reader ; but his occafional and particular pofitions were fometimes interested , fometimes negligent , and fometimes ca- pricious . It is not without reafon that Trapp , fpeaking of the praifes which he beftows on Pa- Jamon and Arcite ...
Pàgina 86
... reader more perplexity than pleasure , and feems hardly worth the ftudy that it cofts , yet it must be valued as a proof of a mind at once fubtle and com . prehenfive : In open profpect nothing bounds our eye , Until the 5 In 86 DRYDE N.
... reader more perplexity than pleasure , and feems hardly worth the ftudy that it cofts , yet it must be valued as a proof of a mind at once fubtle and com . prehenfive : In open profpect nothing bounds our eye , Until the 5 In 86 DRYDE N.
Pàgina 92
... reader does not with away . His digreffion to the original and progress of na- vigation , with his profpect of the advancement which it fhall receive from the Royal Society , then newly newly inftituted , may be confidered as an example ...
... reader does not with away . His digreffion to the original and progress of na- vigation , with his profpect of the advancement which it fhall receive from the Royal Society , then newly newly inftituted , may be confidered as an example ...
Pàgina 96
... reader , if not relieved by the interpofition of fomething that fooths the fancy , grows weary of admiration , and defers the reft . As an approach to the hiftorical truth was necef- fary , the action and cataftrophe were not in the ...
... reader , if not relieved by the interpofition of fomething that fooths the fancy , grows weary of admiration , and defers the reft . As an approach to the hiftorical truth was necef- fary , the action and cataftrophe were not in the ...
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