Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 145
... Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestick , the sentiments un- borrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not ...
... Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestick , the sentiments un- borrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not ...
Page 146
... Hudibras , his poet had no tenderness : he chuses not that any pity should be shewn or re- spect paid him : he gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ...
... Hudibras , his poet had no tenderness : he chuses not that any pity should be shewn or re- spect paid him : he gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ...
Page 149
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumu- late such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumu- late such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
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