The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, 第 2 卷1781 |
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Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whofe life I am about Of to delineate , the curiofity which his reputation muft excite , will require a difplay more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his ...
Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whofe life I am about Of to delineate , the curiofity which his reputation muft excite , will require a difplay more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his ...
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... poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also privation , yet ...
... poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is also privation , yet ...
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... poets . The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced foon after the Restoration , as it feems , by the earl of Orrery , in com- pliance with the opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had formed his tafte by the French ...
... poets . The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced foon after the Restoration , as it feems , by the earl of Orrery , in com- pliance with the opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had formed his tafte by the French ...
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Samuel Johnson. nion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animad- verted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the ...
Samuel Johnson. nion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animad- verted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the ...
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... Poetry , an elegant and inftruc- tive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to represent the duke of Dorfet . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals ...
... Poetry , an elegant and inftruc- tive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to represent the duke of Dorfet . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals ...
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