The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... fufficiently ob- ferved : the few decifions and remarks which his pre- faces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to English literature , and fhew fuch skill as raises our wifh for more examples . The ...
... fufficiently ob- ferved : the few decifions and remarks which his pre- faces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to English literature , and fhew fuch skill as raises our wifh for more examples . The ...
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... fufficiently indulgent . That confufion of images may entertain for a moment ; but being unna- tural , it foon grows wearifome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might ...
... fufficiently indulgent . That confufion of images may entertain for a moment ; but being unna- tural , it foon grows wearifome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might ...
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... fufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of feduction : " fhe plays round the head , but comes not at the heart . ” Her beauty and abfence , her kindness and cruelty , her difdain and inconftancy , produce no correfpondence ...
... fufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of feduction : " fhe plays round the head , but comes not at the heart . ” Her beauty and abfence , her kindness and cruelty , her difdain and inconftancy , produce no correfpondence ...
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... mademoifelles * . This This paffage , it may be fuppofed , was a cenfure of the practice of acting plays in the univerfities , of which the instances are many . This is fufficiently peevish in a man , who , G 4 Lu MELT O N. 87.
... mademoifelles * . This This paffage , it may be fuppofed , was a cenfure of the practice of acting plays in the univerfities , of which the instances are many . This is fufficiently peevish in a man , who , G 4 Lu MELT O N. 87.
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Samuel Johnson. This is fufficiently peevish in a man , who , when he mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only cri ...
Samuel Johnson. This is fufficiently peevish in a man , who , when he mentions his exile from the college , relates , with great luxuriance , the compenfation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him . Plays were therefore only cri ...
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