Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 137
... Hudibras , which , as Prior relates , was made known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king quoted , the courtiers studied , and the whole party of the ...
... Hudibras , which , as Prior relates , was made known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king quoted , the courtiers studied , and the whole party of the ...
Page 141
... Hudibras , his poet had no tenderness : he chuses not that any pity should be shewn or respect paid him : he gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the character ...
... Hudibras , his poet had no tenderness : he chuses not that any pity should be shewn or respect paid him : he gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the character ...
Page 144
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
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