The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry ...
... seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry ...
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... seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions , it will be rea- dily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising ...
... seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions , it will be rea- dily inferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising ...
Pàgina 21
... seldom elevates , their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and , in the mass of materials which inge- nious absurdity has thrown ...
... seldom elevates , their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and , in the mass of materials which inge- nious absurdity has thrown ...
Pàgina 83
... seldom leaves a man honest , however it might find him , Milton is suspected of having interpolated the book called Icon Basilike , which the council of state , to whom he was now made Latin secretary , em- ployed him to censure , by ...
... seldom leaves a man honest , however it might find him , Milton is suspected of having interpolated the book called Icon Basilike , which the council of state , to whom he was now made Latin secretary , em- ployed him to censure , by ...
Pàgina 106
... seldom so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such embarrassments , few likewise would have wanted ability to find some better expedient . Three years after his Paradise Lost , ( 1667 ) , he ...
... seldom so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such embarrassments , few likewise would have wanted ability to find some better expedient . Three years after his Paradise Lost , ( 1667 ) , he ...
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