The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... shew that the fatire was unfelt , The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of Liberty fo well against a perpetual dictator . The Whigs , fays Pope , defign ...
... shew that the fatire was unfelt , The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of Liberty fo well against a perpetual dictator . The Whigs , fays Pope , defign ...
Page 61
... shew " from the attribute of his infinite justice , " that there is a compenfation in futurity , to << prove the immortality of the human foul , " and the certainty of future rewards and pu- " nishments . But the poetical perfons in tra ...
... shew " from the attribute of his infinite justice , " that there is a compenfation in futurity , to << prove the immortality of the human foul , " and the certainty of future rewards and pu- " nishments . But the poetical perfons in tra ...
Page 160
... shews no evi- dent figns of repentance , but may be reafon- ably fufpected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expreffes more fhame than forrow , and more rage than fhame . His next ( 1706 ) was Ulyles ; which ...
... shews no evi- dent figns of repentance , but may be reafon- ably fufpected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expreffes more fhame than forrow , and more rage than fhame . His next ( 1706 ) was Ulyles ; which ...
Page 218
... shew little wit , and little virtue . Yet to him it must be confeffed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and the cure of our Pindarick madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were ...
... shew little wit , and little virtue . Yet to him it must be confeffed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and the cure of our Pindarick madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were ...
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... Shew what friends wits may be , in spite of all the fools in the world . All this while it was likely that the clerks did not know his hand ; he certainly had no more enemies than a pub- lick character like his inevitably excites , and ...
... Shew what friends wits may be , in spite of all the fools in the world . All this while it was likely that the clerks did not know his hand ; he certainly had no more enemies than a pub- lick character like his inevitably excites , and ...
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