Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 14
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
... seem to have been right ; but his life was , it seems irregular , negligent , and sensual . PRIOR has written with great variety , and his variety has made him popular . He has tried all styles , from the grotesque to the solemn , and ...
Pagina 84
... seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part , imagined with great vigour , and expressed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The seven first stanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh are the ...
... seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part , imagined with great vigour , and expressed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The seven first stanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh are the ...
Pagina 334
... seems to be the work of a linguist skilfully pedantick , and his countrymen , the proper judges of its power to please , reject it with disgust . Their predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind them , and ...
... seems to be the work of a linguist skilfully pedantick , and his countrymen , the proper judges of its power to please , reject it with disgust . Their predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind them , and ...
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