The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volumen2A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor and F. Batley, 1723 - 360 páginas |
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Página xiii
... for the Honour of our English Poets : And as a Demonftration of Impartiality in my Cha- racters of their Talents , in many Places I have inferted Specimens of their Works , that that the Reader may himself judge of the Abilities of.
... for the Honour of our English Poets : And as a Demonftration of Impartiality in my Cha- racters of their Talents , in many Places I have inferted Specimens of their Works , that that the Reader may himself judge of the Abilities of.
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... Place in a Treatife of this Nature ; but I hope all Objections of this kind will vanish , when the infinite Number of Poems ex- tant is well confider'd ; fo that the best Care and greatest Diligence may look over Jome Things , tho ' not ...
... Place in a Treatife of this Nature ; but I hope all Objections of this kind will vanish , when the infinite Number of Poems ex- tant is well confider'd ; fo that the best Care and greatest Diligence may look over Jome Things , tho ' not ...
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... Places , read that Orphens and in man Eumolphus were famous for their Poems before the Trojan War ; and those who date Poetry only from that time , are fo far from being in the right , that the beft Opinions make it as old as the World ...
... Places , read that Orphens and in man Eumolphus were famous for their Poems before the Trojan War ; and those who date Poetry only from that time , are fo far from being in the right , that the beft Opinions make it as old as the World ...
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... Place : soxta to onli beeld at uw trovo od Verfe was the Language of the Gods of oldy , orod In which their facred Oracles were told . But of late , I think , it has been most commonly quite another fort of Language . tow at didy The ...
... Place : soxta to onli beeld at uw trovo od Verfe was the Language of the Gods of oldy , orod In which their facred Oracles were told . But of late , I think , it has been most commonly quite another fort of Language . tow at didy The ...
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... place fome Paffages in a better Light to redeem others from malicious Interpretations To help out an Author's Modefty , and fhield hint from the Ill - Nature of those Perfons who unjustly fet up for Cenfors ; but in this Age they , for ...
... place fome Paffages in a better Light to redeem others from malicious Interpretations To help out an Author's Modefty , and fhield hint from the Ill - Nature of those Perfons who unjustly fet up for Cenfors ; but in this Age they , for ...
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Página 198 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 104 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 255 - To his friends' pity, and pursuers' scorn, With shame remembers while himself was one Of the same herd, himself the same had done. Thence to the coverts and the conscious groves, The scenes of his past triumphs and his loves.
Página 147 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Página 196 - Sidney rais'd his Gratuity to Two Hundred Pounds, and commanded the Steward to give it immediately, lest as he read further, he might be tempted to give away his whole Estate.
Página 144 - I'd in pleasure, ease, and plenty live. And as I near approach'd the verge of life, Some kind relation (for I'd have no wife) Should take upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better state prepare.
Página 257 - But free and common as the sea or wind; When he to boast or to disperse his stores Full of the tributes of his grateful shores, Visits the world, and in his flying towers Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours; Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants.
Página 105 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Página 174 - His behaviour was easy and courteous to all ; but distinguished and adapted to each man in particular, according to his station and quality. His civility was free from the formality of rule, and flowed immediately from his good sense.
Página 276 - He kept up his good" humour to the laft ; and took leave of " his wife and friends, immediately before " his laft agony, with the fame tranquillity " of mind, and the fame indifference for " life, as though he had been upon taking " but a fhort journey. He was twice mar" ried, firft to a daughter of Mr.