The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an ...
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... tell you the truth , ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
... tell you the truth , ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
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... tell , cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and ...
... tell , cannot , however , now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with nar- row views , and ...
Pàgina 53
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And , as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , So ...
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And , as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , So ...
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