The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvii
... true character in a Latin epitaph to be seen in the church - yard of Streatham . The history of Dr. Johnson from this period is a melancholy detail of affliction and sorrow . He began to feel the unavoidable calamities of old age . He ...
... true character in a Latin epitaph to be seen in the church - yard of Streatham . The history of Dr. Johnson from this period is a melancholy detail of affliction and sorrow . He began to feel the unavoidable calamities of old age . He ...
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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 ...
Pàgina 15
... true de- lights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue , below the malice and flat- teries of fortune . ' So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! but actions are visible ...
... true de- lights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue , below the malice and flat- teries of fortune . ' So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! but actions are visible ...
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... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' 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 Love was with ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' 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 Love was with ...
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