Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 238
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
Page 289
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathe ...
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathe ...
Page 430
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning : his images are not borrowed nerely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess , and mighty bone , but deliberate ...
... performance ; his poem is the work of a man not blinded by the dust of learning : his images are not borrowed nerely from books . The superiority which he confers upon his hero is not personal prowess , and mighty bone , but deliberate ...
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