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Pàgina xxi
... pleasing , as well as most popular works , The Lives of the British Poets , " which he executed with a degree of critical force and talent which has seldom been concentrated . Johnson's laborious and distinguished career terminated in ...
... pleasing , as well as most popular works , The Lives of the British Poets , " which he executed with a degree of critical force and talent which has seldom been concentrated . Johnson's laborious and distinguished career terminated in ...
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... pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from ...
... pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from ...
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... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason are no mean speci- mens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason are no mean speci- mens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
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... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen ...
... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem * First published in quarto , 1669 , under the title of " Carmen ...
Pàgina 29
... pleasing , must please at The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but will ...
... pleasing , must please at The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but will ...
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