Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina 191
... remarks as others have supplied ; after which , nothing remains but a critical examination of his poetry . ' Edmund Waller , ' says Clarendon , ' was born to a very fair estate , by the parsimony , or frugality , of a wise father and ...
... remarks as others have supplied ; after which , nothing remains but a critical examination of his poetry . ' Edmund Waller , ' says Clarendon , ' was born to a very fair estate , by the parsimony , or frugality , of a wise father and ...
Pagina 290
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
Pagina 447
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
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