The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... elegance , of a par- ticular provision made by Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail ...
... elegance , of a par- ticular provision made by Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail ...
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... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and a- mongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and a- mongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
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... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agita- tion ; ' The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agita- tion ; ' The Scotch ...
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... Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles the First . much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction 12 COWLEY .
... Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles the First . much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction 12 COWLEY .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with ...
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