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 24
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
Pagina 27
... remarks . let honeft credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . Clif- ford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at laft obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . let honeft credulity beware of receiving cha- racters from contemporary writers . Clif- ford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at laft obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
Pagina 30
... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for a country : the sphere of Morocco , as if " Morocco were the globe of earth and water ; " but a globe is no sphere neither , by his leave . " " & c . So fphere must not be fenfe ...
... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for a country : the sphere of Morocco , as if " Morocco were the globe of earth and water ; " but a globe is no sphere neither , by his leave . " " & c . So fphere must not be fenfe ...
Pagina 63
... Remarks upon it , to have written an Anfwer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : " I have been informed from England , " that a gentleman , who is famous both for " poetry and several other things , had spent " three ...
... Remarks upon it , to have written an Anfwer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : " I have been informed from England , " that a gentleman , who is famous both for " poetry and several other things , had spent " three ...
Pagina 73
... remarks , such as cost a mind ftored like his no labour to produce them . In 1697 , he published his verfion of the works of Virgil ; and that no opportunity of 1 of profit might be loft , dedicated the Pafto rals DRYDEN . 73.
... remarks , such as cost a mind ftored like his no labour to produce them . In 1697 , he published his verfion of the works of Virgil ; and that no opportunity of 1 of profit might be loft , dedicated the Pafto rals DRYDEN . 73.
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