Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 244
... poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars ; and says , No comet ... poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his ...
... poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars ; and says , No comet ... poet . When the king was restored , Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his ...
Pagina 405
... poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raise horror and detestation ; and whatever good was withheld ...
... poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion however of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raise horror and detestation ; and whatever good was withheld ...
Pagina 477
... poet ; and , if we credit the testimony of his con- temporaries , he was a poet of no vulgar rank . But favour and flattery are now at an end ; criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour , and , being able ...
... poet ; and , if we credit the testimony of his con- temporaries , he was a poet of no vulgar rank . But favour and flattery are now at an end ; criticism is no longer softened by his bounties or awed by his splendour , and , being able ...
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