Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 25
... easy to delude him by false perfuafions . He was certainly admitted to those meetings in which the firft hints and original plan of action are fupposed to have been formed ; and was one of the fixteen Ministers , or agents of the Minif ...
... easy to delude him by false perfuafions . He was certainly admitted to those meetings in which the firft hints and original plan of action are fupposed to have been formed ; and was one of the fixteen Ministers , or agents of the Minif ...
الصفحة 86
... easy to find any embarraffment in the compli- cation of his claufes , any inconfequence in his connections , or abruptnefs in his tranfitions . His ftyle was well fuited to his thoughts , which are never fubtilifed by nice difquifitions ...
... easy to find any embarraffment in the compli- cation of his claufes , any inconfequence in his connections , or abruptnefs in his tranfitions . His ftyle was well fuited to his thoughts , which are never fubtilifed by nice difquifitions ...
الصفحة 11
... plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a Smile . To detect his imitations were tedious and useless . What he takes he feldom makes makes worse ; and he cannot be juftly thought a BROO ME . IL.
... plagues with easy thoughts beguile , Make pains and tortures objects of a Smile . To detect his imitations were tedious and useless . What he takes he feldom makes makes worse ; and he cannot be juftly thought a BROO ME . IL.
الصفحة 4
Samuel Johnson. measure , written when he was feventeen , are remarkably easy and elegant . Some of his other odes are deformed by the Pindarick folly then prevailing , and are written with fuch neglect of all metrical rules as is ...
Samuel Johnson. measure , written when he was feventeen , are remarkably easy and elegant . Some of his other odes are deformed by the Pindarick folly then prevailing , and are written with fuch neglect of all metrical rules as is ...
الصفحة 23
... expreffive of characters . His lines are commonly smooth and easy , and his thoughts always religiously pure ; but who is there that , to fo much piety and and innocence , does not wifh for a greater measure WATT 23 S.
... expreffive of characters . His lines are commonly smooth and easy , and his thoughts always religiously pure ; but who is there that , to fo much piety and and innocence , does not wifh for a greater measure WATT 23 S.
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