The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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... elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of ...
... elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature , but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a hiftory : he has given the character , not the life of ...
Pàgina 2
... an in- tellectual digeftion that concocted the pulp of learning , but refufed the hufks , had the appear- ance of an inftinctive elegance , of a particular provifion provifion made by Nature for literary politeness . But in 2 COWLE Y.
... an in- tellectual digeftion that concocted the pulp of learning , but refufed the hufks , had the appear- ance of an inftinctive elegance , of a particular provifion provifion made by Nature for literary politeness . But in 2 COWLE Y.
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... elegance of his converfation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of thofe who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his converfation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of thofe who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
Pàgina 7
... elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The ...
... elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 66 " The ...
Pàgina 13
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
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