The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 - English poetry Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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Page 30
... use " it . I would defire him to expound those " lines in Granada : " I'll to the turrets of the palace go , " And add new fire to thofe that fight below . " Thence , hero - like , with torches by my fide , " ( Far be the omen tho ...
... use " it . I would defire him to expound those " lines in Granada : " I'll to the turrets of the palace go , " And add new fire to thofe that fight below . " Thence , hero - like , with torches by my fide , " ( Far be the omen tho ...
Page 41
... use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon which he gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was induced to it in my own defence , • many hundred copies of it being difperfed " abroad without my ...
... use of bold fictions and ambitious figures . The reafon which he gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was induced to it in my own defence , • many hundred copies of it being difperfed " abroad without my ...
Page 63
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however feems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commend- ed by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however feems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commend- ed by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
Page 100
... use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was yet unsettled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain this disorder there is reafon to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the effects ...
... use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was yet unsettled , and the payments of the Exchequer were dilatory and uncertain this disorder there is reafon to believe that the Laureat fometimes felt the effects ...
Page 117
... use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the pur- pofe of a poet . From thofe founds which we hear on small or on coarfe occafions , we do not easily ...
... use , and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the pur- pofe of a poet . From thofe founds which we hear on small or on coarfe occafions , we do not easily ...
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