The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina xxiii
... known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries . " - Macaulay . 2 Carlyle says of Boswell's Life , " In worth as a book , we rate it beyond any other product of the eighteenth century . " And Macaulay writes , " It ...
... known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries . " - Macaulay . 2 Carlyle says of Boswell's Life , " In worth as a book , we rate it beyond any other product of the eighteenth century . " And Macaulay writes , " It ...
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... known that the business of a states- man can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : * Barnesii Anacreontem.l " The ...
... known that the business of a states- man can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : * Barnesii Anacreontem.l " The ...
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... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual ...
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thec . - COWLEY.QIDS " They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thec . - COWLEY.QIDS " They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon ...
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... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
... known to have written , seems to have copied , though with the inferiority of an imitator . The Holy Book like the eighth sphere doth shine With thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars , that to our eye It makes all ...
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