The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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Page 45
... verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but on one fide or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminative character of Spenfer , whofe work he ...
... verses exhibit all the fondness of friendship ; but on one fide or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminative character of Spenfer , whofe work he ...
Page 81
... verse being included in the fecond , is therefore use- lefs ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife . Of the course of Addison's familiar day * , before his marriage , Pope has given a detail . He had in the house with him ...
... verse being included in the fecond , is therefore use- lefs ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife . Of the course of Addison's familiar day * , before his marriage , Pope has given a detail . He had in the house with him ...
Page 85
... very judiciously , in his character of Waller , Thy verse could fhew ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the ftorms that bore him hence . * Spence . G 3 O ! had O had thy Mufe not come an age too soon ADDISON . 85.
... very judiciously , in his character of Waller , Thy verse could fhew ev'n Cromwell's innocence , And compliment the ftorms that bore him hence . * Spence . G 3 O ! had O had thy Mufe not come an age too soon ADDISON . 85.
Page 106
... verses to Kneller , is often happy , but is too well known to be quoted . His tranflations , fo far as I have compared them , want the exactness of a scholar . That he understood his authors cannot be doubted ; but his versions will not ...
... verses to Kneller , is often happy , but is too well known to be quoted . His tranflations , fo far as I have compared them , want the exactness of a scholar . That he understood his authors cannot be doubted ; but his versions will not ...
Page 118
... verse . I never " heard of the man in my life , yet I find your name as " a fubfcriber . He is too grave a poet for me ; and I " think among the mediocrifts , in profe as well as verfe . " To this Pope returns : " To answer your ...
... verse . I never " heard of the man in my life , yet I find your name as " a fubfcriber . He is too grave a poet for me ; and I " think among the mediocrifts , in profe as well as verfe . " To this Pope returns : " To answer your ...
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