The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... virtue . Yet to him , it must be confessed , that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and though ...
... virtue . Yet to him , it must be confessed , that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and though ...
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... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches ...
... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches ...
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... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed , by their vanity , to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed , by their vanity , to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
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... virtue or of truth : - " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general ; while others make themselves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
... virtue or of truth : - " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general ; while others make themselves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
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... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind : whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How sur- prising is ...
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind : whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How sur- prising is ...
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