The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... tion the poets and players were left at quiet ; for to have molested them would have had the appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Col- lier , a fierce and implacable ...
... tion the poets and players were left at quiet ; for to have molested them would have had the appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Col- lier , a fierce and implacable ...
Pagina 36
... tion full of spirit , of great compass , and stored with refined ideas . He is a critic of the first rank ; and , what is his peculiar ornament , he is delivered from the ostentation , malevolence , and supercilious temper , that so ...
... tion full of spirit , of great compass , and stored with refined ideas . He is a critic of the first rank ; and , what is his peculiar ornament , he is delivered from the ostentation , malevolence , and supercilious temper , that so ...
Pagina 49
... tion , or narrative . A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight . Of " Florelio " it is sufficient to say , that it is an occasional pastoral , which implies something neither natural nor arti- ficial , neither comic nor serious ...
... tion , or narrative . A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight . Of " Florelio " it is sufficient to say , that it is an occasional pastoral , which implies something neither natural nor arti- ficial , neither comic nor serious ...
Pagina 59
... by the casual cohabita- tion of mere mortals . Horace's rule is broken in both cases ; there is no dignus vindice nodus , no difficulty that required 1 any supernatural interposition . A patten may be made by GAY . 59.
... by the casual cohabita- tion of mere mortals . Horace's rule is broken in both cases ; there is no dignus vindice nodus , no difficulty that required 1 any supernatural interposition . A patten may be made by GAY . 59.
Pagina 66
... tion from learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who ...
... tion from learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who ...
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