Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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... praises were bestowed upon them and upon the Preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high de- gree : they were , however , not pub- lifhed till five years afterwards . Cowley , Milton , and Pope , are dif- tinguished among the ...
... praises were bestowed upon them and upon the Preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high de- gree : they were , however , not pub- lifhed till five years afterwards . Cowley , Milton , and Pope , are dif- tinguished among the ...
الصفحة 53
... praise of half the nation , when he might be univerfally favoured . The greatnefs of the defign , the po- pularity of the author , and the atten- tion of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future fale , that ...
... praise of half the nation , when he might be univerfally favoured . The greatnefs of the defign , the po- pularity of the author , and the atten- tion of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future fale , that ...
الصفحة 82
... praise , High on his helm celeftial lightnings play , His beamy fhield emits a living ray ; Th ' unwearied blaze inceffant ftreams fupplies , Like the red ftar that fires th ' autumnal fkies . But Pallas now Tydides ' foul inspires ...
... praise , High on his helm celeftial lightnings play , His beamy fhield emits a living ray ; Th ' unwearied blaze inceffant ftreams fupplies , Like the red ftar that fires th ' autumnal fkies . But Pallas now Tydides ' foul inspires ...
الصفحة 112
... praise , because the reader knows not what they have blot- ted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumu- lated honour both of what he had pub- lifhed , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father ...
... praise , because the reader knows not what they have blot- ted . Pope's voracity of fame taught him the art of obtaining the accumu- lated honour both of what he had pub- lifhed , and of what he had fuppreffed . In this year his father ...
الصفحة 115
... praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for Shakespeare's plays in fix ...
... praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for Shakespeare's plays in fix ...
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