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Pàgina vii
... pounds for what he was to perform . It is true that , as he himself described it in a letter to Boswell , his engagement was only " to write little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets ,
... pounds for what he was to perform . It is true that , as he himself described it in a letter to Boswell , his engagement was only " to write little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets ,
Pàgina xxiii
... true ! -true as the 10th of Juvenal himself . " Sir Walter Scott had an intense admiration for both these poems , and indeed told James Ballantyne that he had more pleasure in reading them than any other poetical compositions . He winds ...
... true ! -true as the 10th of Juvenal himself . " Sir Walter Scott had an intense admiration for both these poems , and indeed told James Ballantyne that he had more pleasure in reading them than any other poetical compositions . He winds ...
Pàgina 1
... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
Pàgina 3
... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
Pàgina 7
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' * So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' * So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though ...
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