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Pàgina xxiii
... pleasure in reading them than any other poetical compositions . He winds up his great romance of Ivanhoe with an extract ; and Lockhart tells us that the last line of MS . he sent to the press was a quotation from the same source ...
... pleasure in reading them than any other poetical compositions . He winds up his great romance of Ivanhoe with an extract ; and Lockhart tells us that the last line of MS . he sent to the press was a quotation from the same source ...
Pàgina 8
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , in 1667 [ 28th July ] , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and King Charles pronounced ...
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey , in 1667 [ 28th July ] , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and King Charles pronounced ...
Pàgina 9
... pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
Pàgina 20
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion by which the estab- lished order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words , or new meanings of words , are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion by which the estab- lished order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words , or new meanings of words , are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
Pàgina 23
... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest ...
... pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated , and the memory relieved . If the Pindaric style be , what Cowley thinks it , the highest and noblest ...
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