The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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Page 141
... cri- ticks ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , reprefented him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ...
... cri- ticks ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to read to him , reprefented him as most delighting , after Homer , which he could almost repeat , were Ovid's ...
Page 154
... criticks , the first praife of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it re- quires an affemblage of all the powers which are singly fufficient for other compofitions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleafure with truth , by ...
... criticks , the first praife of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem , as it re- quires an affemblage of all the powers which are singly fufficient for other compofitions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleafure with truth , by ...
Page 302
... criticks , who could have as little understood his meaning in that language as they do his beauties in his own . Falfe criticks have been the plague of all ages ; Milton himfeif , in a very polite court , has been com- pared to the ...
... criticks , who could have as little understood his meaning in that language as they do his beauties in his own . Falfe criticks have been the plague of all ages ; Milton himfeif , in a very polite court , has been com- pared to the ...
Page 311
... poffeffion for many years ; not indeed without the competition of rivals who fometimes prevailed , or the cenfure of criticks , which was often poignant X 4 and + H and often juft ; but with fuch a degree of DRY D E N. 312.
... poffeffion for many years ; not indeed without the competition of rivals who fometimes prevailed , or the cenfure of criticks , which was often poignant X 4 and + H and often juft ; but with fuch a degree of DRY D E N. 312.
Page 312
... criticks . I wish that there were no neceffity of following the progrefs of his theatrical fame , or tracing the mean- ders of his mind through the whole feries of his dra- matick performances ; it will be fit however to enume- rate ...
... criticks . I wish that there were no neceffity of following the progrefs of his theatrical fame , or tracing the mean- ders of his mind through the whole feries of his dra- matick performances ; it will be fit however to enume- rate ...
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