The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... poets . In the reign of Charles the first , the puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama , which they considered as an entertainment not lawful to Christians , an opinion held by them in common with the church of Rome ...
... poets . In the reign of Charles the first , the puritans had raised a violent clamour against the drama , which they considered as an entertainment not lawful to Christians , an opinion held by them in common with the church of Rome ...
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... poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recog- nizes a familiar image ; but meets it again , amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty , and enlarged with ...
... poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recog- nizes a familiar image ; but meets it again , amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty , and enlarged with ...
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... poet not by necessity but inclination , and wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his ...
... poet not by necessity but inclination , and wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his ...
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... poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Den- nis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were after- wards friends ; and , in one of his latter works , he praises ...
... poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Den- nis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were after- wards friends ; and , in one of his latter works , he praises ...
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... poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and evidently despised ; nor should his dignity of mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to ...
... poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and evidently despised ; nor should his dignity of mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to ...
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