The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina xxii
... sometimes indeed nodding approba- tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and des- potism will occasionally lead the best dispositions ...
... sometimes indeed nodding approba- tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and des- potism will occasionally lead the best dispositions ...
Pàgina 1
... sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large ...
... sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or em- ployment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large ...
Pàgina 3
... sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in ...
... sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in ...
Pàgina 10
... sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor ...
... sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far - fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor ...
Pàgina 14
... sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or licence can reconcile to the understanding . A lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed soul to a strange ...
... sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or licence can reconcile to the understanding . A lover neither dead nor alive : Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed soul to a strange ...
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