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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... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
Pagina 31
... poetical beautifications of a ship ! " that is , a phenix in the first stanza , and but 66 a wasp in the last : nay , to make his hum- " ble comparison of a wasp more ridiculous , " he " he does not fay it flies upon the waves DRYDEN . 31.
... poetical beautifications of a ship ! " that is , a phenix in the first stanza , and but 66 a wasp in the last : nay , to make his hum- " ble comparison of a wasp more ridiculous , " he " he does not fay it flies upon the waves DRYDEN . 31.
Pagina 68
... last choice . It was but rea- fon that your Mufe , which appeared first in a Tyrant's quarrel , fhould employ her last efforts to justify the ufurpations of the Hind . 6 Next year the nation was fummoned to celebrate the birth Next 68 ...
... last choice . It was but rea- fon that your Mufe , which appeared first in a Tyrant's quarrel , fhould employ her last efforts to justify the ufurpations of the Hind . 6 Next year the nation was fummoned to celebrate the birth Next 68 ...
Pagina 79
... last a day , about three weeks after . Mr. Dryden's decease , was appointed for the " interment : Dr. Garth pronounced a fine " Latin oration , at the College , over the 66 corpfe ; which was attended to the Abbey by a numerous train of ...
... last a day , about three weeks after . Mr. Dryden's decease , was appointed for the " interment : Dr. Garth pronounced a fine " Latin oration , at the College , over the 66 corpfe ; which was attended to the Abbey by a numerous train of ...
Pagina 90
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remembrance . From this principle Dryden did not oft de- part ; his complaints are for the greater part general ; he feldom pollutes his page with an adverfe ...
... last- ing importance to names , which , left to themselves , would vanish from remembrance . From this principle Dryden did not oft de- part ; his complaints are for the greater part general ; he feldom pollutes his page with an adverfe ...
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