The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 4Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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... discovery of a new race of preter- natural agents , fhould happen twice to the fame- man . Of this poem the author was , I think , allowed to enjoy the praise for a long time without disturb ance . Many years afterwards Dennis publifhed ...
... discovery of a new race of preter- natural agents , fhould happen twice to the fame- man . Of this poem the author was , I think , allowed to enjoy the praise for a long time without disturb ance . Many years afterwards Dennis publifhed ...
Page 65
... discovered in the new poem , which had a form and a title with which its readers were unac- quainted . Its reception was not uniform ; fome thought it a very imperfect piece , though not without without good lines . While the author was ...
... discovered in the new poem , which had a form and a title with which its readers were unac- quainted . Its reception was not uniform ; fome thought it a very imperfect piece , though not without without good lines . While the author was ...
Page 78
... discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal . In this poem Pope feems to reckon with the publick . He vindicates himfelf from cenfures ; and with dignity rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and respect . Into ...
... discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal . In this poem Pope feems to reckon with the publick . He vindicates himfelf from cenfures ; and with dignity rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and respect . Into ...
Page 165
... discovered that the only stage on which a poet could appear , with any hope of advantage , was London ; a place too wide for the operation of petty compofition and private malignity , where merit might foon become confpicuous , and ...
... discovered that the only stage on which a poet could appear , with any hope of advantage , was London ; a place too wide for the operation of petty compofition and private malignity , where merit might foon become confpicuous , and ...
Page 192
... discovered that a dialogue of imaginary fwains might be compofed with little difficulty ; because the converfation of fhepherds excludes profound or refined fentiments ; and , for images and de- fcriptions , Satyrs and Fauns , and ...
... discovered that a dialogue of imaginary fwains might be compofed with little difficulty ; because the converfation of fhepherds excludes profound or refined fentiments ; and , for images and de- fcriptions , Satyrs and Fauns , and ...
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