The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 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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Pagina 50
... action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ftage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To adjust the minute events of literary history , is tedious ...
... action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ftage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To adjust the minute events of literary history , is tedious ...
Pagina 62
... action . They engaged him to defend the contro- verfial papers found in the strong - box of Charles the Second , and , what yet was hard- er , to defend them against Stillingfleet . With hopes of promoting popery , he was employed to ...
... action . They engaged him to defend the contro- verfial papers found in the strong - box of Charles the Second , and , what yet was hard- er , to defend them against Stillingfleet . With hopes of promoting popery , he was employed to ...
Pagina 126
... action we betake , It fhuns the mint like gold that chymifts make : How hard was then his tafk , at once to be What in the body natural we fee ! Man's Architect diftinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain ...
... action we betake , It fhuns the mint like gold that chymifts make : How hard was then his tafk , at once to be What in the body natural we fee ! Man's Architect diftinctly did ordain The charge of muscles , nerves , and of the brain ...
Pagina 144
... action and catastrophe were not in the poet's power ; there is therefore an unpleafing difproportion between the be- ginning and the end . We are alarmed by a faction formed out of many fects various in their principles , but agreeing ...
... action and catastrophe were not in the poet's power ; there is therefore an unpleafing difproportion between the be- ginning and the end . We are alarmed by a faction formed out of many fects various in their principles , but agreeing ...
Pagina 170
... action unsuitable to the times in which it is placed , can hardly be fuffered to pass without cenfure of the hyperbolical commendation which Dryden has given it in the general Preface , and in a poetical Dedi- dication , a piece where ...
... action unsuitable to the times in which it is placed , can hardly be fuffered to pass without cenfure of the hyperbolical commendation which Dryden has given it in the general Preface , and in a poetical Dedi- dication , a piece where ...
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