The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 52
... racters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices ...
... racters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices ...
Page 112
... racters may be great , but they are not amiable . The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or passive fortitude , and sometimes of prudence ; but he will be able to carry away few precepts of justice , and ...
... racters may be great , but they are not amiable . The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or passive fortitude , and sometimes of prudence ; but he will be able to carry away few precepts of justice , and ...
Page 148
... racters may be great , but they are not amiable . The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or passive fortitude , and sometimes of prudence ; but he will be able to carry away few precepts of justice , and ...
... racters may be great , but they are not amiable . The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or passive fortitude , and sometimes of prudence ; but he will be able to carry away few precepts of justice , and ...
Page 176
... racters which he assumed . He once erected a stage on Tower - hill , and ha rangued the populace as a mountebank ; and , hav- ing made physic part of his study , is said to have practised it successfully . He was so much in favour with ...
... racters which he assumed . He once erected a stage on Tower - hill , and ha rangued the populace as a mountebank ; and , hav- ing made physic part of his study , is said to have practised it successfully . He was so much in favour with ...
Page 341
... racters . The beauty who is totally free from dis- proportion of parts and features , cannot be ridi culed by an overcharged resemblance . From his prose , however , Dryden derives only his accidental and secondary praise ; the venera ...
... racters . The beauty who is totally free from dis- proportion of parts and features , cannot be ridi culed by an overcharged resemblance . From his prose , however , Dryden derives only his accidental and secondary praise ; the venera ...
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