Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 38
... remarked by Pope , that what raises the hero often sinks the man . Of Blackmore it may be said , that as the poet sinks , the man rises ; the animad- versions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no ...
... remarked by Pope , that what raises the hero often sinks the man . Of Blackmore it may be said , that as the poet sinks , the man rises ; the animad- versions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no ...
Page 122
... remarked , that it was no very just representation of a good man , to suppose him liable to drunkenness , and disposed in his riots to cut throats . 6 He was now indeed at liberty , but , was , as before , without any other support than ...
... remarked , that it was no very just representation of a good man , to suppose him liable to drunkenness , and disposed in his riots to cut throats . 6 He was now indeed at liberty , but , was , as before , without any other support than ...
Page 459
... remarking , that he seemed to have one favourite catastrophe , as his three Plays all concluded with lavish suicide ; a method by which , as Dryden remarked , a poet easily rids his scene of persons whom he wants not to keep alive . In ...
... remarking , that he seemed to have one favourite catastrophe , as his three Plays all concluded with lavish suicide ; a method by which , as Dryden remarked , a poet easily rids his scene of persons whom he wants not to keep alive . In ...
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