The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 21750 |
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... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in reputation ...
... performances has appeared only a poem on the death of Lord Haftings , compofed with great ambition of fuch con- ceits as , notwithstanding the reformation begun by Waller and Denham , the example of Cowley ftill kept in reputation ...
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... performance was fo much . difapproved , that he was compelled to re- call it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in which it now appears , and which is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that ...
... performance was fo much . difapproved , that he was compelled to re- call it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in which it now appears , and which is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that ...
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... performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] 66 are incomparably the best subjects I ever be " had , fo what I have written on them is " much better than what I have performed " on any other . As I ...
... performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] 66 are incomparably the best subjects I ever be " had , fo what I have written on them is " much better than what I have performed " on any other . As I ...
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... performance , written in time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their ene- mies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the ...
... performance , written in time of the Dutch war , to inflame the nation against their ene- mies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the ...
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... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarifm fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness of language , and fuch copiousness of fentiment , as , fince the name of Lopez de Vega , per ...
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarifm fhould be allowed , fhews fuch facility of compofition , fuch readiness of language , and fuch copiousness of fentiment , as , fince the name of Lopez de Vega , per ...
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