The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 49
... virtue or of truth . Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general ; while others make themselves pleasant with the princi- ples of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
... virtue or of truth . Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general ; while others make themselves pleasant with the princi- ples of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
Page 50
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of inankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is ...
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of inankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is ...
Page 54
... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it be- came at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it de- serves observation ...
... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it be- came at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it de- serves observation ...
Page 56
... virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas , men- tioned by Molineux : But that which Arthur with most pleasure heard Were ...
... virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas , men- tioned by Molineux : But that which Arthur with most pleasure heard Were ...
Page 101
... virtues . His subjects are com- monly such as require no great depth of thought or energy of expression . His Fables are generally stale , and therefore excite no curiosity . Of his favourite , " The Two Springs , " the fiction is unna ...
... virtues . His subjects are com- monly such as require no great depth of thought or energy of expression . His Fables are generally stale , and therefore excite no curiosity . Of his favourite , " The Two Springs , " the fiction is unna ...
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