The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life ...
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life ...
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... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But , in the author's own honest rela- tion , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could pre ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But , in the author's own honest rela- tion , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could pre ...
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... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst others of lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst others of lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
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... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some no- tice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation , " The Scotch ...
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... of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the restoration , after all the diligence of his 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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