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Pagina 7
... passages . Chaucer afforded him many subjects of a more ferious and fublime species ; and it were to be wished , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the ...
... passages . Chaucer afforded him many subjects of a more ferious and fublime species ; and it were to be wished , POPE had exercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Grifilda , or Troilus and Creffida , or the ...
Pagina 8
... passage worth particular notice , not only for the justness of the criticism , but because it contains a censure * Cowley is faid to have despised Chaucer . I am not furprized at this strange judgment Cowley was indif- putably a Genius ...
... passage worth particular notice , not only for the justness of the criticism , but because it contains a censure * Cowley is faid to have despised Chaucer . I am not furprized at this strange judgment Cowley was indif- putably a Genius ...
Pagina 10
... passage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocose old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and ...
... passage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the writers who were popular in the time of Chaucer . The jocose old woman says , that her husband frequently read to her out of a volume that contained , Valerius whole : and ...
Pagina 12
... passages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat- * The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to ...
... passages from these three poems ; and the reader must not think any observations on the character of Dryden , the constant pat- * The falling off of his hair , said a man of wit , had no other confequence , than to make his laurels to ...
Pagina 14
... passage for the gushing flood * When Palamon perceived his rival had escaped , -He stares , he stamps the ground ; The hollow tow'r with clamour rings around : With briny tears he bath'd his fetter'd feet , And dropp'd all o'er with ...
... passage for the gushing flood * When Palamon perceived his rival had escaped , -He stares , he stamps the ground ; The hollow tow'r with clamour rings around : With briny tears he bath'd his fetter'd feet , And dropp'd all o'er with ...
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