The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Band 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... poets , and profeffed to have written about this time , the poem upon Silence , in imitation of Rochester's " Nothing . " He had now formed his versification , affisted by the rich melody of Dryden ; and the smoothness of his numbers ...
... poets , and profeffed to have written about this time , the poem upon Silence , in imitation of Rochester's " Nothing . " He had now formed his versification , affisted by the rich melody of Dryden ; and the smoothness of his numbers ...
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... poem , by giving to Cibber the old books , the cold pedantry , and sluggish pertinacity of Theobald . Cibber repaid the Dun- eiad with another pamphlet , which , though he pretended to difregard , really gave him great uneasiness . From ...
... poem , by giving to Cibber the old books , the cold pedantry , and sluggish pertinacity of Theobald . Cibber repaid the Dun- eiad with another pamphlet , which , though he pretended to difregard , really gave him great uneasiness . From ...
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... poem in which the sense predominates more over the diction . Of the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , it is fufficient praise , that it is only inferior to the inimitable 4 Alexander's Feaft " of Dryden . The general effect is very pleasing ...
... poem in which the sense predominates more over the diction . Of the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , it is fufficient praise , that it is only inferior to the inimitable 4 Alexander's Feaft " of Dryden . The general effect is very pleasing ...
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... poem written on metaphysical ideas , which he did not perfectly comprehend . His intentions were evidently good , to fhow men that the existence of imperfection and evil is not inconsistent with the wisdom and goodness of God . Many of ...
... poem written on metaphysical ideas , which he did not perfectly comprehend . His intentions were evidently good , to fhow men that the existence of imperfection and evil is not inconsistent with the wisdom and goodness of God . Many of ...
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... poem . The reft , together with others of the like fort , from his ma- nufcript copy of the other Ethic Epift ! es , are here inferted at the bottom of the page , under the title of Variations The fourth volume contains the Satires ...
... poem . The reft , together with others of the like fort , from his ma- nufcript copy of the other Ethic Epift ! es , are here inferted at the bottom of the page , under the title of Variations The fourth volume contains the Satires ...
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