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 5
... believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in ciphering and deciphering , comes to his own country and steps ...
... believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in ciphering and deciphering , comes to his own country and steps ...
Pàgina 10
... believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines ...
... believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines ...
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 43
... believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard . * That in his school , as in everything else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence ...
... believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard . * That in his school , as in everything else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... Samuel Johnson,Sir Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1871 |
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