The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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Page 62
... seeing crimes punished and virtue rewarded , yet , fince wickedness often profpers in real life , the poet is certainly at liberty to give it prof- perity on the stage . For if poetry has an imitation of reality , how are its laws ...
... seeing crimes punished and virtue rewarded , yet , fince wickedness often profpers in real life , the poet is certainly at liberty to give it prof- perity on the stage . For if poetry has an imitation of reality , how are its laws ...
Page 114
... mafs to fuch perfection brought ; That no part useless none misplac'd we see , None are forgot , and more would monstrous be . " SHEFFIELD , SHEFFIELD , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . JOHN SHEFFIELD , descended from a 114 BLACK MORE.
... mafs to fuch perfection brought ; That no part useless none misplac'd we see , None are forgot , and more would monstrous be . " SHEFFIELD , SHEFFIELD , BUCKINGHAMSHIRE . JOHN SHEFFIELD , descended from a 114 BLACK MORE.
Page 151
... see the sense , Truth , where the meaning's obvious , will dispense ; The reader what in reason's due believes ; Nor can we call that falfe which not deceives . ( 3 ) Hyperboles , fo daring and fo bold , Difdaining bounds , are yet by ...
... see the sense , Truth , where the meaning's obvious , will dispense ; The reader what in reason's due believes ; Nor can we call that falfe which not deceives . ( 3 ) Hyperboles , fo daring and fo bold , Difdaining bounds , are yet by ...
Page 152
... See thofe dead bodies hence convey'd with care , Life may perhaps return - with change of air . But I chufe rather to correct gently , by foreign examples , hoping that fuch as are confcious of the like exceffes will take the hint , and ...
... See thofe dead bodies hence convey'd with care , Life may perhaps return - with change of air . But I chufe rather to correct gently , by foreign examples , hoping that fuch as are confcious of the like exceffes will take the hint , and ...
Page 176
... see How Plato's , Bacon's , Newton's , looks agree ; Or in fair feries laurel'd bards be shown , A Virgil there , and here an Addison . TICKELL . POPE . He produced another piece of the fame kind at the appearance of Cato , with equal ...
... see How Plato's , Bacon's , Newton's , looks agree ; Or in fair feries laurel'd bards be shown , A Virgil there , and here an Addison . TICKELL . POPE . He produced another piece of the fame kind at the appearance of Cato , with equal ...
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