The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... pleasure . In this minute kind of history , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for ...
... pleasure . In this minute kind of history , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for ...
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... pleasures , and a moderate revenue , below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen , and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
... pleasures , and a moderate revenue , below the malice and flatteries of fortune . " So differently are things seen , and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though motives are secret . Cowley certainly retired ...
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... pleasure , or suffer the uneasi- ness , of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chert- sey , in 1667 , in ... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
... pleasure , or suffer the uneasi- ness , of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chert- sey , in 1667 , in ... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised ...
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... pleasures 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 ...
... pleasures 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 ...
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... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
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