The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and , with all those ...
... formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and , with all those ...
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... fictitious and artificial , with very little of nature , and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to P consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that LIVES OF THE POETS .
... fictitious and artificial , with very little of nature , and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to P consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... formed by a judgment free , and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have ...
... formed by a judgment free , and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have ...
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... formation of the person that enjoys it , and is nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated by ...
... formation of the person that enjoys it , and is nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated by ...
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... formed a magnificent design , he was careless of parti- cular and subordinate elegancies ; he studied no niceties of versification ; he waited for no felicities of fancy ; but caught his first thoughts in the first words in which they ...
... formed a magnificent design , he was careless of parti- cular and subordinate elegancies ; he studied no niceties of versification ; he waited for no felicities of fancy ; but caught his first thoughts in the first words in which they ...
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