Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 58
... publick , nor what provocation incited Butler to do that which no provocation can excuse . His frenzy lasted not long ; and he seems to have regained his full force of mind ; for he wrote after- wards his excellent poem upon the death ...
... publick , nor what provocation incited Butler to do that which no provocation can excuse . His frenzy lasted not long ; and he seems to have regained his full force of mind ; for he wrote after- wards his excellent poem upon the death ...
Page 150
... publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken , and awe was hissed away ; when any unsettled innovator who could hatch a half- formed notion produced it to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher ...
... publick and private quiet , in that age , when subordination was broken , and awe was hissed away ; when any unsettled innovator who could hatch a half- formed notion produced it to the publick ; when every man might become a preacher ...
Page 173
... publick seems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play , that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency , nor zealous for virtue ; but of one who conceived forcibly , and drew originally , by consulting nature ...
... publick seems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play , that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency , nor zealous for virtue ; but of one who conceived forcibly , and drew originally , by consulting nature ...
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