The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of ...
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... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate 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 ...
... true delights of solitary studies , of temperate 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 ...
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... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And the apples were demonstrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very shade they cast did other lights outshine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
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... true This bravery is , since these times shewed me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
... true This bravery is , since these times shewed me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon man as a microcosm : If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in some proportion ; All the ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1868 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1861 |
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