Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 頁 |
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... genius , though without com- mon sense ; so that his genius , having no guide , was perpetually liable to de-- generate into bombaft . This made him , pass a foolish youth , the sport of peers and poets but his having a very good heart ...
... genius , though without com- mon sense ; so that his genius , having no guide , was perpetually liable to de-- generate into bombaft . This made him , pass a foolish youth , the sport of peers and poets but his having a very good heart ...
第 55 頁
... genius call'd abroad , Adieu ! In a fpecies of poetry altogether his own he next tried his fkill , and fuc- ceeded . Of his wife he was deprived in 1740 . She was foon followed by an amiable daugh- D 4 daughter , the child of her former ...
... genius call'd abroad , Adieu ! In a fpecies of poetry altogether his own he next tried his fkill , and fuc- ceeded . Of his wife he was deprived in 1740 . She was foon followed by an amiable daugh- D 4 daughter , the child of her former ...
第 60 頁
... genius , like the genius of Swift , was in fome measure the fullen inspiration of discontent ? Whether you think with me , I know not ; but the famous De mortuis nil nifi bonum has always ftricken me as favour- ing more of female ...
... genius , like the genius of Swift , was in fome measure the fullen inspiration of discontent ? Whether you think with me , I know not ; but the famous De mortuis nil nifi bonum has always ftricken me as favour- ing more of female ...
第 75 頁
... Genius of Pope , which attempted ( whether juftly or not ) to pluck from Pope his Wing of Fire , and to reduce him to a rank at least one de- gree lower than the clafs of English poets . Though the first edition of this Effay was , for ...
... Genius of Pope , which attempted ( whether juftly or not ) to pluck from Pope his Wing of Fire , and to reduce him to a rank at least one de- gree lower than the clafs of English poets . Though the first edition of this Effay was , for ...
第 113 頁
... others . He feems never to have ftudied profody , nor to have had any direction but from his own car . But ,. with all his defects , he was a man of genius and a poet . H DYE R. JOHN OHN DYER , of whom I have YOUNG . 113.
... others . He feems never to have ftudied profody , nor to have had any direction but from his own car . But ,. with all his defects , he was a man of genius and a poet . H DYE R. JOHN OHN DYER , of whom I have YOUNG . 113.
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