The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagi- nation to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by con- sequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagi- nation to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by con- sequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
Pàgina 39
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limita- tions this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limita- tions this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
Pàgina 40
... lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatic entertainment . He began now to grow weary of ...
... lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatic entertainment . He began now to grow weary of ...
Pàgina 55
... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
Pàgina 63
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Pro- vidence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Pro- vidence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary or with his household ...
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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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