The Works of the English Poets, Volume 19J. Rivington, 1779 - 366 pages |
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... fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that , an author of your own quality , ( whofe ...
... fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that , an author of your own quality , ( whofe ...
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... my long ftudy of your Lordship , I am arrived at the know- ledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like thofe artifts , I can only fay , this is like the draught of fuch a one , or like I like DEDICATION . III.
... my long ftudy of your Lordship , I am arrived at the know- ledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like thofe artifts , I can only fay , this is like the draught of fuch a one , or like I like DEDICATION . III.
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... fay it , with all the feverity of truth , that every line of yours is pre- cious . Your Lordship's only fault is ... fays of him , that he could have excelled Varius in Tragedy , and Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to ...
... fay it , with all the feverity of truth , that every line of yours is pre- cious . Your Lordship's only fault is ... fays of him , that he could have excelled Varius in Tragedy , and Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to ...
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... , and made fo tedious a digreffion from Satyr to . Heroic Poetry . But , if you will not excufe it , by the tattling quality of age , which , as Sir William Dave- nant nant fays , is always narrative ; yet I hope 118 DEDICATIO Ñ .
... , and made fo tedious a digreffion from Satyr to . Heroic Poetry . But , if you will not excufe it , by the tattling quality of age , which , as Sir William Dave- nant nant fays , is always narrative ; yet I hope 118 DEDICATIO Ñ .
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John Dryden Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). nant fays , is always narrative ; yet I hope the useful- nefs ... fay , that Christianity is not capable of those embellishments which are af- forded in the belief of thofe ancient ...
John Dryden Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres). nant fays , is always narrative ; yet I hope the useful- nefs ... fay , that Christianity is not capable of those embellishments which are af- forded in the belief of thofe ancient ...
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