The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... tion of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ...
... tion of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ...
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... tion ; ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned . I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place ...
... tion ; ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned . I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place ...
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... tion . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the ...
... tion . He had been perplexed with a long compliance to foreign manners . He was satiated with the arts of a court ; which sort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the ...
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... found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hear- er , may be more rigorously and philosophically con- sidered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combina for tion of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult COWLEY . 19.
... found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hear- er , may be more rigorously and philosophically con- sidered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combina for tion of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult COWLEY . 19.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. for tion of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult re- semblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit ... tion . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness 20 COWLEY .
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. for tion of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult re- semblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit ... tion . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness 20 COWLEY .
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