The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... by Smith the best Latin poem fince the Æneid . Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he ob- tained ( Having ADDISON . 7.
... by Smith the best Latin poem fince the Æneid . Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no public employment , he ob- tained ( Having ADDISON . 7.
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... performance juftified their confidence . They found , how- ever , in their progrefs , many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying la- bour : many pieces were offered , and many were received . * Addison had enough of ...
... performance juftified their confidence . They found , how- ever , in their progrefs , many auxiliaries . To attempt a single paper was no terrifying la- bour : many pieces were offered , and many were received . * Addison had enough of ...
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... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no ftranger to the world , probably faw the selfishness of ...
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no ftranger to the world , probably faw the selfishness of ...
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... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the duft of learning his images are not borrowed merely from books . The fuperiority which he confers upon his hero is not perfonal prowefs , and mighty bone , but but ...
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the duft of learning his images are not borrowed merely from books . The fuperiority which he confers upon his hero is not perfonal prowefs , and mighty bone , but but ...
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... performance by a like agency , is not a fimile , but an exemplification . It is not a fimile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters . fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , fo Etna vomits flames in Sicily ...
... performance by a like agency , is not a fimile , but an exemplification . It is not a fimile to say that the Thames waters fields , as the Po waters . fields ; or that as Hecla vomits flames in Iceland , fo Etna vomits flames in Sicily ...
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