Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 273
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a ...
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of preju- dice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a ...
Page 308
... elegance which longer growth would have supplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is sometimes too hastily accused . If the excellence of Dryden's works was lessened by his indigence , their number was increased ; and I know not ...
... elegance which longer growth would have supplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is sometimes too hastily accused . If the excellence of Dryden's works was lessened by his indigence , their number was increased ; and I know not ...
Page 435
... elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the Psalms . These pious compositions ...
... elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Christian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he designed to have made a new poetical version of the Psalms . These pious compositions ...
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