The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina 43
... allowed himself to pass a day of festivity and indulgence with some gay gentlemen of Gray's Inn . He now began to engage in the controversies of the times , and lent his breath to blow the flames of contention . In 1641 he published a ...
... allowed himself to pass a day of festivity and indulgence with some gay gentlemen of Gray's Inn . He now began to engage in the controversies of the times , and lent his breath to blow the flames of contention . In 1641 he published a ...
Pàgina 45
... allowed that every society may punish , though not prevent , the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment , though it may crush the author , promotes the book ; and it seems not more ...
... allowed that every society may punish , though not prevent , the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious ; but this punishment , though it may crush the author , promotes the book ; and it seems not more ...
Pàgina 65
... allowed that the representation may be allegorical , the true meaning is so uncertain and remote , that it is never sought , because it cannot be known when it is found . Among the flocks , and copses , and flowers , appear the Heathen ...
... allowed that the representation may be allegorical , the true meaning is so uncertain and remote , that it is never sought , because it cannot be known when it is found . Among the flocks , and copses , and flowers , appear the Heathen ...
Pàgina 73
... allowed it to be false . The plan of " Paradise Lost " has this inconvenience , that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know ...
... allowed it to be false . The plan of " Paradise Lost " has this inconvenience , that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners . The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know ...
Pàgina 74
... allowed to be the portress of Hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the allegory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have ...
... allowed to be the portress of Hell ; but when they stop the journey of Satan , a journey described as real , and when Death offers him battle , the allegory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have ...
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