A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Dryden. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. Philips. Walsh. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Montague. HalifaxJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1793 |
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... most elaborate performances . It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines , a measure which he borrowed from the " Gondibert " of Davenant , and which , in his prefatory letter to Sir Robert Howard , he fays , " I have ...
... most elaborate performances . It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines , a measure which he borrowed from the " Gondibert " of Davenant , and which , in his prefatory letter to Sir Robert Howard , he fays , " I have ...
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... most elaborate of all his dramas . By writing tragedies in rhyme he continued to im- prove his diction and his numbers , and feems to have fully formed his versification , and fettled his fyftem of propriety when he wrote this play . In ...
... most elaborate of all his dramas . By writing tragedies in rhyme he continued to im- prove his diction and his numbers , and feems to have fully formed his versification , and fettled his fyftem of propriety when he wrote this play . In ...
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... most modeft and the most easy to be discoun- tenanced in his approaches either to his inferiors or his equals . To the teftimony of Congreve , who knew him familiarly , his cenfurers have nothing to object , but that his modefty ...
... most modeft and the most easy to be discoun- tenanced in his approaches either to his inferiors or his equals . To the teftimony of Congreve , who knew him familiarly , his cenfurers have nothing to object , but that his modefty ...
Страница xi
... most laborious work , is pro- nounced by Pope , “ the most noble and spirited translation in any language . " The general opi- nion is equally favourable . " Thofe who excel him , " fays Dr. Felton , " where they obferve he hath failed ...
... most laborious work , is pro- nounced by Pope , “ the most noble and spirited translation in any language . " The general opi- nion is equally favourable . " Thofe who excel him , " fays Dr. Felton , " where they obferve he hath failed ...
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... most herself does please ; There only fmiles because the lives at ease ; And , like young David , finds her ftrength the more , When difincumber'd from these arms she wore . Heaven would our royal master fhould exceed Moft in that ...
... most herself does please ; There only fmiles because the lives at ease ; And , like young David , finds her ftrength the more , When difincumber'd from these arms she wore . Heaven would our royal master fhould exceed Moft in that ...
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