The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... Poem on the Peace has the first place . He after- wards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time conceived , fays Tickell , an opinion of the English genius for poetry . No- thing is better known of Boileau than that he ...
... Poem on the Peace has the first place . He after- wards presented the collection to Boileau , who from that time conceived , fays Tickell , an opinion of the English genius for poetry . No- thing is better known of Boileau than that he ...
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... poem is a very confident and difcri- minative character of Spenfer , whose work he had then never read * . So little fometimes is criticism the effect of judgment . It is neceffary to inform the reader , that about this time he was ...
... poem is a very confident and difcri- minative character of Spenfer , whose work he had then never read * . So little fometimes is criticism the effect of judgment . It is neceffary to inform the reader , that about this time he was ...
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... poem on the peace of Ryfwick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called by Smith the best Latin poem fince the Æneid . Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be ...
... poem on the peace of Ryfwick , which he dedicated to Montague , and which was afterwards called by Smith the best Latin poem fince the Æneid . Praise must not be too rigorously examined ; but the performance cannot be denied to be ...
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... poets his Dialogues on Medals fhew that he had perused the works with great diligence and fkill . The abundance of his own mind left him little need of adventitious fentiments ; his wit always could fuggeft what the occa- fion demanded ...
... poets his Dialogues on Medals fhew that he had perused the works with great diligence and fkill . The abundance of his own mind left him little need of adventitious fentiments ; his wit always could fuggeft what the occa- fion demanded ...
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