The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina vii
... human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . " This great work , like many other great works , owed its origin to the spur of competition . By long prescription , unsupported apparently by any legal right , the " Trade " of London ...
... human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . " This great work , like many other great works , owed its origin to the spur of competition . By long prescription , unsupported apparently by any legal right , the " Trade " of London ...
Pàgina xx
... Human Wishes , " the deep and pathetic morality of which has often extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over pages professedly sentimental , could save the poet from the irksome drudgery of a writer of all work . His tragedy ...
... Human Wishes , " the deep and pathetic morality of which has often extracted tears from those whose eyes wander dry over pages professedly sentimental , could save the poet from the irksome drudgery of a writer of all work . His tragedy ...
Pàgina xxii
... human miseries ; the other , a friendly though grave philosopher , who shows us the nothingness of earthly hopes , to teach us that our affections ought to be placed higher . The work can scarce be termed a narrative , being in a great ...
... human miseries ; the other , a friendly though grave philosopher , who shows us the nothingness of earthly hopes , to teach us that our affections ought to be placed higher . The work can scarce be termed a narrative , being in a great ...
Pàgina 9
... human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was ...
... human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was ...
Pàgina 19
... human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known ...
... human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is known ...
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