The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 16
... less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank ...
... less wit , and not greater virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a bank ...
Pàgina 19
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties , than ex- posing the blemishes , of a laudable writing : like Horace , in ...
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties , than ex- posing the blemishes , of a laudable writing : like Horace , in ...
Pàgina 22
... less frequent among bad men , where we often , with admiration , see persons at once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country , and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who ...
... less frequent among bad men , where we often , with admiration , see persons at once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country , and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who ...
Pàgina 24
... leave him in total disgrace , and will therefore quote from another preface a passage less reprehensible : - " Some gentlemen have been disingenuous and unjust to me , by wresting and forcing my meaning , 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... leave him in total disgrace , and will therefore quote from another preface a passage less reprehensible : - " Some gentlemen have been disingenuous and unjust to me , by wresting and forcing my meaning , 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 26
... less diligent in perusing books . His literature was , I think , but small . What he knew of antiquity , I suspect him to have gathered from modern compilers ; but , though he could not boast of much critical knowledge , his mind was ...
... less diligent in perusing books . His literature was , I think , but small . What he knew of antiquity , I suspect him to have gathered from modern compilers ; but , though he could not boast of much critical knowledge , his mind was ...
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