Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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Page 62
... mind , who will hereafter peruse the Night Thoughts with lefs , fatisfaction ; who will wifh they had ftill been deceived ; who will quarrel with me for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or ...
... mind , who will hereafter peruse the Night Thoughts with lefs , fatisfaction ; who will wifh they had ftill been deceived ; who will quarrel with me for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or ...
Page 78
... mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of loitering here , of death defrauded long ; . " Of old fo gracious ( and let that fuffice ) , My very mafier knows me not . I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot ...
... mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of loitering here , of death defrauded long ; . " Of old fo gracious ( and let that fuffice ) , My very mafier knows me not . I've been fo long remember'd , I'm forgot ...
Page 103
... concife . His plan feems to have started in his mind at the pre- fent moment , and his thoughts appear the effects of chance , fometimes ad- verfe , G 4 verfe , and fometimes lucky , with very little operation YOUN G. 103.
... concife . His plan feems to have started in his mind at the pre- fent moment , and his thoughts appear the effects of chance , fometimes ad- verfe , G 4 verfe , and fometimes lucky , with very little operation YOUN G. 103.
Page 104
... 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 of facred horror , that oppreffes diftinction , 1.04 YOUNG .
... 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 of facred horror , that oppreffes diftinction , 1.04 YOUNG .
Page 106
... mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To tranflate he never condefcended , unless his Paraphrafe on Job may be con- fidered as a verfion ; in ...
... mind , and therefore the whole power of his poetry is exhaufted by a fingle perufal ; his conceits pleafe only when they furprise . To tranflate he never condefcended , unless his Paraphrafe on Job may be con- fidered as a verfion ; in ...
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