The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... printed letters . Molineux is particularly delighted with the song of Mopas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero , often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said ...
... printed letters . Molineux is particularly delighted with the song of Mopas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero , often sinks the man . " Of Blackmore it may be said ...
Page 25
... printed after his death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of ...
... printed after his death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of ...
Page 38
... printed it , however ; and , seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the town ; but , though he was flushed with the success of the Beggar's Opera ...
... printed it , however ; and , seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the town ; but , though he was flushed with the success of the Beggar's Opera ...
Page 42
... printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ...
... printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ...
Page 50
... printed in his own edi- tion of his works , I never saw ; Once a Lover , and always a Lover , is said to be in a great degree indecent and gross . Granville could not admire without bigotry ; he copied the wrong as well as the right ...
... printed in his own edi- tion of his works , I never saw ; Once a Lover , and always a Lover , is said to be in a great degree indecent and gross . Granville could not admire without bigotry ; he copied the wrong as well as the right ...
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