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Pàgina xxiii
... passages quoted from poets , divines , and philosophers , are so skilfully selected , that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages , " D 10 " Their wedded life , " Carlyle says ,. SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxiii.
... passages quoted from poets , divines , and philosophers , are so skilfully selected , that a leisure hour may always be very agreeably spent in turning over the pages , " D 10 " Their wedded life , " Carlyle says ,. SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxiii.
Pàgina 3
... 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 Scotch treaty , " says he , " B2 COWLEY . 3.
... 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 Scotch treaty , " says he , " B2 COWLEY . 3.
Pàgina 4
... passages equally ominous to each . That of the king was the following : At bello audacis populi vexatus et armis , Finibus extorris , complexu avulsus Iuli , Auxilium imploret , videatque indigna suorum Funera , nec , cum se sub leges ...
... passages equally ominous to each . That of the king was the following : At bello audacis populi vexatus et armis , Finibus extorris , complexu avulsus Iuli , Auxilium imploret , videatque indigna suorum Funera , nec , cum se sub leges ...
Pàgina 18
... passages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : - Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , atra That shows more cost ...
... passages in which poets have exemplified their own precepts , none will easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : - Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , atra That shows more cost ...
Pàgina 19
... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is 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 ...
... passage which Bentley , in the only English verses which he is 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 ...
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