The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the French mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this ...
... poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the French mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this ...
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... poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propen- sity for some certain science or employment , which is com- monly called genius ...
... poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propen- sity for some certain science or employment , which is com- monly called genius ...
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... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of ...
... poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned , from his master Pindar , to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of ...
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... poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men ... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac count . The metaphysical ...
... poets who have written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men ... poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some ac count . The metaphysical ...
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... poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of mat- ter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow ...
... poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of mat- ter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1868 |
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