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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... mind , not very extenfive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
... mind , not very extenfive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mifcellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led ...
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... mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
... mind , and propenfity for fome certain fcience or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large general powers , acci- dentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ...
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... minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compo- fitions , The ...
... minds feems fcarcely cre- dible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , fince a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year * ; containing , with other poetical compo- fitions , The ...
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... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whole acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ...
... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his fettlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedi- cation to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whole acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the poffibility of com- mitting , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praifes beauty which he never faw ; complains of jealoufy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the poffibility of com- mitting , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praifes beauty which he never faw ; complains of jealoufy ...
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