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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... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ...
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the bafis of all excellence is truth : * In the first edition of this Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " which " was never inferted in any collection of his works ...
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... manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgi- lian lots , and to have given fome credit to the anfwer of his oracle . Some * Confulting the ...
... manners of that time were fo tinged with fuperftition , that I cannot but fufpect Cowley of having confulted on this great occafion the Virgi- lian lots , and to have given fome credit to the anfwer of his oracle . Some * Confulting the ...
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... manners . He was fa- " tiated with the arts of a court ; which fort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Thofe were " the reasons that made him to follow the violent " inclination of ...
... manners . He was fa- " tiated with the arts of a court ; which fort of life , though his virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Thofe were " the reasons that made him to follow the violent " inclination of ...
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... manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate fucceffors , of ...
... manner refembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the caft of his fentiments . When their reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate fucceffors , of ...
Pàgina 41
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal plea fure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the ef- tablished order of words is changed , or of innova- tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is ...
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal plea fure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the ef- tablished order of words is changed , or of innova- tion , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is ...
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