The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 84
... receiving the visits of the people of distinguished parts as well as quality . ' His visitors of high quality must now be imagined to be few ; but men of parts might reasonably court the conversation of a man so generally illustrious ...
... receiving the visits of the people of distinguished parts as well as quality . ' His visitors of high quality must now be imagined to be few ; but men of parts might reasonably court the conversation of a man so generally illustrious ...
Page 89
... received no public acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the de- fender of the regicides ? All that he himself could ...
... received no public acclamations , is readily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the de- fender of the regicides ? All that he himself could ...
Page 91
... receiving them by the slow sale of the former . Why a writer changed his bookseller a hundred years ago , I am far from hoping to discover . Certainly , he , who in two years sells thirteen hundred copies of a volume in quarto , bought ...
... receiving them by the slow sale of the former . Why a writer changed his bookseller a hundred years ago , I am far from hoping to discover . Certainly , he , who in two years sells thirteen hundred copies of a volume in quarto , bought ...
Page 102
... received it . As a drama it is deficient . The action is not probable . A mask , in those parts where supernatural intervention is ad- mitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagina- tion ; but , so far as the action is ...
... received it . As a drama it is deficient . The action is not probable . A mask , in those parts where supernatural intervention is ad- mitted , must indeed be given up to all the freaks of imagina- tion ; but , so far as the action is ...
Page 116
... received universal praise . If " Paradise Regained " has been too much depreciated , " Sampson Agonistes " has in requital been too much admired . It could only be by long prejudice , and the bigotry of learning , that Milton could ...
... received universal praise . If " Paradise Regained " has been too much depreciated , " Sampson Agonistes " has in requital been too much admired . It could only be by long prejudice , and the bigotry of learning , that Milton could ...
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