Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reason why the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more than poetical , by spreading over his mind a generat general obfcurity ...
... images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reason why the reader is dif appointed is , that the thought of the LAST DAY makes every man more than poetical , by spreading over his mind a generat general obfcurity ...
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... images . He plays , indeed , only on the furface of life ; he never penetrates the receffes of the mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To ...
... images . He plays , indeed , only on the furface of life ; he never penetrates the receffes of the mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To ...
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... images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delufion , the mean- nefs naturally adhering , and the irreve rence habitually annexed to trade and manufacture , fink him under infuperable oppreffion ; and the disgust which ...
... images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delufion , the mean- nefs naturally adhering , and the irreve rence habitually annexed to trade and manufacture , fink him under infuperable oppreffion ; and the disgust which ...
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... images are ftriking , and many of the paragraphs are elegant . The caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seafons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomson's beauties and his faults . His poem on ...
... images are ftriking , and many of the paragraphs are elegant . The caft of diction feems to be copied from Thomfon , whofe Seafons were then in their full bloffom of reputation . He has Thomson's beauties and his faults . His poem on ...
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... images . Many of his performances were produced in his youth ; and his greatest work , The Pleafures of Imagination , appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodfley , by whom it was published , relate , that when the copy was offered him , the ...
... images . Many of his performances were produced in his youth ; and his greatest work , The Pleafures of Imagination , appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodfley , by whom it was published , relate , that when the copy was offered him , the ...
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