The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for , since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his ...
... original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for , since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his ...
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... original . In all his versions , strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his hymn to Venus , from Homer , is perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are ...
... original . In all his versions , strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his hymn to Venus , from Homer , is perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are ...
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... original constitution can be very little helped by local remedies ; inherent and radi- cal dulness will never be much invigorated by extrinsic animation . This poem , if he had written nothing else , would have transmitted him to ...
... original constitution can be very little helped by local remedies ; inherent and radi- cal dulness will never be much invigorated by extrinsic animation . This poem , if he had written nothing else , would have transmitted him to ...
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... original copy nor corrected the press , was supposed capable of amendment . To this edition he prefixed a short and elegant account of Milton's life , writ- ten at once with tenderness and integrity . He published likewise ( 1729 ) a ...
... original copy nor corrected the press , was supposed capable of amendment . To this edition he prefixed a short and elegant account of Milton's life , writ- ten at once with tenderness and integrity . He published likewise ( 1729 ) a ...
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... original , by admitting images not Asiatic , at least not Ju- daical : -Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing to be praised either in the thought or expression ...
... original , by admitting images not Asiatic , at least not Ju- daical : -Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing to be praised either in the thought or expression ...
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