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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... whofe pregnancy of imagina- tion and 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 ...
... whofe pregnancy of imagina- tion and 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 ...
Pàgina 5
... whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became fecretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl of St. Albans ...
... whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became fecretary to the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl of St. Albans ...
Pàgina 7
... whofe minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his re- putation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little ...
... whofe minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwife to his re- putation than as they fhew him to have been above the affectation of unfeasonable elegance , and to have known that the bufinels of a statesman can be little ...
Pàgina 11
... whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whofe mifcarriage in a juft caufe has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his ...
... whofe hands he was might free him from confinement , he did what no law of fociety prohibits . The man whofe mifcarriage in a juft caufe has put him in the power of his enemy may , without any violation of his integrity , regain his ...
Pàgina 22
... whofe 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 ...
... whofe 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 ...
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