The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina 3
... believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all ...
... believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all ...
Pàgina 31
... believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as ...
... believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as ...
Pàgina 56
... believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now very little known , " An Apology or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government ...
... believe his faculties to be vigorous only half the year . This opinion is , with great learning and ingenuity , refuted in a book now very little known , " An Apology or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government ...
Pàgina 60
... believe , and which is universally rejected , it is diffi- cult to conjecture . The style is harsh ; but it has something of rough vigour , which perhaps may often strike , though it cannot please . On this history the licenser again ...
... believe , and which is universally rejected , it is diffi- cult to conjecture . The style is harsh ; but it has something of rough vigour , which perhaps may often strike , though it cannot please . On this history the licenser again ...
Pàgina 61
... believe , not the rapier , but the back - sword , of which he recommends the use in his book on education . His eyes are said never to have been bright ; but , if he was a dexterous fencer , they must have been once quick . His domestic ...
... believe , not the rapier , but the back - sword , of which he recommends the use in his book on education . His eyes are said never to have been bright ; but , if he was a dexterous fencer , they must have been once quick . His domestic ...
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