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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... excellence is truth : * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was ...
... excellence is truth : * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was ...
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... excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate difplay of his own qualifica- tions . The defire of pleafing has in different men . produced actions of heroifm , and ...
... excellence is natural ; it is na- tural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal re- gard by an elaborate difplay of his own qualifica- tions . The defire of pleafing has in different men . produced actions of heroifm , and ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates ...
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... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
... excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit , let none be there ...
Pàgina 38
... excellence as a mind yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguifh , and how to commend the qua- lities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow ...
... excellence as a mind yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguifh , and how to commend the qua- lities of his companion ; but when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and di- verts his forrow ...
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