“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The epistle to Boileau is not so happy ...
... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The epistle to Boileau is not so happy ...
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... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself some- times into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles is fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself some- times into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles is fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
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... excellence , that , for half a year before it was acted , the manager allowed its Author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately ...
... excellence , that , for half a year before it was acted , the manager allowed its Author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately ...
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... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of ad- miration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty - fifth year ; before other men , even such as are some time to shine in ...
... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of ad- miration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty - fifth year ; before other men , even such as are some time to shine in ...
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... excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected an- swers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind ...
... excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected an- swers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or passion ; his personages are a kind ...
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