The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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Pàgina 3
... effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death ...
... effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of assigning to Death ...
Pàgina 8
... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakespeare's mon- ster , Caliban , is added a sister - monster , Sycorax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this ...
... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakespeare's mon- ster , Caliban , is added a sister - monster , Sycorax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this ...
Pàgina 21
... effect of wind only , to come before the cause is a little preposterous ; so that if he takes it one way , or if he takes it the other , those two ifs will scarcely make one possibility . Enough of Settle . Marriage - a - la - Mode ...
... effect of wind only , to come before the cause is a little preposterous ; so that if he takes it one way , or if he takes it the other , those two ifs will scarcely make one possibility . Enough of Settle . Marriage - a - la - Mode ...
Pàgina 37
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular.orgd bite whi mwilivi bren THE version of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occasion of it is said to have been , that ...
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular.orgd bite whi mwilivi bren THE version of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occasion of it is said to have been , that ...
Pàgina 52
... effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the sake of spreading the contagion in society , I wish ...
... effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the sake of spreading the contagion in society , I wish ...
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