Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 頁 |
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... ment than the defire of excellence . His primary and principal purpofe was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revifals ; af- ter ...
... ment than the defire of excellence . His primary and principal purpofe was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revifals ; af- ter ...
第 16 頁
... ment from his maturer ftudies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wicherley , a man who feems to have had among his contemporaries his full fhare of reputation , to have been efteemed without virtue , and careffed without good ...
... ment from his maturer ftudies . At this time began his acquaintance with Wicherley , a man who feems to have had among his contemporaries his full fhare of reputation , to have been efteemed without virtue , and careffed without good ...
第 39 頁
... was capable of improve- ment ; and having luckily contrived to borrow his machinery from the Roficru- cians , imparted the fcheme with which his head was teeming to Addifon , who told him C 4 him that his work , as it flood , was POPE . 39.
... was capable of improve- ment ; and having luckily contrived to borrow his machinery from the Roficru- cians , imparted the fcheme with which his head was teeming to Addifon , who told him C 4 him that his work , as it flood , was POPE . 39.
第 50 頁
... ment , and he complained that he wanted even money to buy books * . He therefore refolved to try how far the favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a verfion of the Iliad , with large notes . * Spence . To To ...
... ment , and he complained that he wanted even money to buy books * . He therefore refolved to try how far the favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a verfion of the Iliad , with large notes . * Spence . To To ...
第 97 頁
... ment . That the quarrel of those two wits fhould be minutely deduced , is not to be expected from a writer to whom , as Homer fays , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no perfonal know- ledge . G Pope Pope doubtless approached ...
... ment . That the quarrel of those two wits fhould be minutely deduced , is not to be expected from a writer to whom , as Homer fays , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no perfonal know- ledge . G Pope Pope doubtless approached ...
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