Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 124
... criticism is universal , and therefore it is reason- able to believe it at least in a great degree just ; but Mr ... criticisms which they have occasioned ; and therefore I shall not dwell upon the particular passages which deserve ...
... criticism is universal , and therefore it is reason- able to believe it at least in a great degree just ; but Mr ... criticisms which they have occasioned ; and therefore I shall not dwell upon the particular passages which deserve ...
Page 312
... criticisms upon a Greek exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's authority , cried ... Criticism , which , if he had written nothing else , would have placed him among the first criticks and the first ...
... criticisms upon a Greek exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's authority , cried ... Criticism , which , if he had written nothing else , would have placed him among the first criticks and the first ...
Page 411
... criticism . This surely is candid . ' Milbourne was styled by Pope the fairest of Critics , only because he exhibited his own version of Virgil to be compared with Dryden's which he condemned , and with which every reader had it ...
... criticism . This surely is candid . ' Milbourne was styled by Pope the fairest of Critics , only because he exhibited his own version of Virgil to be compared with Dryden's which he condemned , and with which every reader had it ...
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