The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina 1
... tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
Pàgina 2
... tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without them , and being an " enemy to constraint , " he spared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be ...
... tell that he could not learn the rules ; but that , being able to perform his exercises without them , and being an " enemy to constraint , " he spared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Milton , and Pope , might be ...
Pàgina 3
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some measure the reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some measure the reader's esteem for the works and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate ...
Pàgina 4
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told me something to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told me something to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
Pàgina 8
... tell cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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