Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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Page 37
... most inge- nious , and the most delightful of all his compofitions , occafioned by a fro- lick of gallantry , rather too familiar , in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's hair . This , whether stealth or violence ...
... most inge- nious , and the most delightful of all his compofitions , occafioned by a fro- lick of gallantry , rather too familiar , in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's hair . This , whether stealth or violence ...
Page 41
... pre- He always confidered the intertexture of the machinery with the action as his most successful exertion of poetical , art . He indeed could never afterwards pro- duce duce any thing of fuch unexampled ex- cellence . Thofe POPE . 41.
... pre- He always confidered the intertexture of the machinery with the action as his most successful exertion of poetical , art . He indeed could never afterwards pro- duce duce any thing of fuch unexampled ex- cellence . Thofe POPE . 41.
Page 43
... most reasonable is , that fome of the lines re- prefent motion as exhibited by fculpture . Of the Epiftle from Eloifa to Abelard , I do not know the date . His first incli- nation to attempt a compofition of that tender kind arofe , as ...
... most reasonable is , that fome of the lines re- prefent motion as exhibited by fculpture . Of the Epiftle from Eloifa to Abelard , I do not know the date . His first incli- nation to attempt a compofition of that tender kind arofe , as ...
Page 63
... most readily employed who would do much work for little money . The history of the notes has never been traced . Broome , in his preface to his poems , declares himfelf the com- mentator in part upon the Iliad ; and it appears from ...
... most readily employed who would do much work for little money . The history of the notes has never been traced . Broome , in his preface to his poems , declares himfelf the com- mentator in part upon the Iliad ; and it appears from ...
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... its first conceptions to the elegance of its laft , will naturally defire a greater num- ber ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets tired , POPE . 89 So many flames before the navy blaze, ...
... its first conceptions to the elegance of its laft , will naturally defire a greater num- ber ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets tired , POPE . 89 So many flames before the navy blaze, ...
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