The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina xix
... mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey.1 All this , as the world well knows , arises from Johnson having found in James Boswell such a biographer , as no man but ...
... mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey.1 All this , as the world well knows , arises from Johnson having found in James Boswell such a biographer , as no man but ...
Pàgina xxii
... mind . The resemblance , in some respects , betwixt the tenor of the moral and that of " Candide , " is striking , and Johnson himself admitted that if the authors could possibly have seen each other's manuscript , they could not have ...
... mind . The resemblance , in some respects , betwixt the tenor of the moral and that of " Candide , " is striking , and Johnson himself admitted that if the authors could possibly have seen each other's manuscript , they could not have ...
Pàgina xxiii
... mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ; For Love , which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience , sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For Faith , that , panting for a happier seat , Counts death kind nature's signal of ...
... mind , Obedient passions , and a will resign'd ; For Love , which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience , sovereign o'er transmuted ill ; For Faith , that , panting for a happier seat , Counts death kind nature's signal of ...
Pàgina 1
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
Pàgina 2
... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge , he published " Love's ...
... minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge , he published " Love's ...
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