LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 8
... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of grada- tion and comparison , to throw the ...
... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of grada- tion and comparison , to throw the ...
Page 11
... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no ...
... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no ...
Page 85
... pleased . The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgement rather from books than ...
... pleased . The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgement rather from books than ...
Page 113
... exhibited in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for almost a century , through all the VOL.I. & vicis- vicissitudes of dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new OT WAY . 113.
... exhibited in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for almost a century , through all the VOL.I. & vicis- vicissitudes of dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new OT WAY . 113.
Page 155
... pleased himself with blank verse , and sup- posed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sus- tained by images which at most can rise ...
... pleased himself with blank verse , and sup- posed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sus- tained by images which at most can rise ...
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