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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... whole acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and ་ ་ Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verte , but mere profe . It was ...
... whole acquaintance all his contemporaries feem to have been ambitious ; and ་ ་ Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verte , but mere profe . It was ...
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... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and fhame by a haughty confcioufnefs of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and fhame by a haughty confcioufnefs of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult now to find the reafon : it certainly has , in a very great ...
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... whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo ...
... whole endea- vour ; but , unluckily refolving to fhew it in rhyme , inftead of writing poetry they only wrote verfes , and very often fuch verfes as ftood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was fo ...
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... whole mind , and of which the first effect is fudden aftonishment , and the fecond ra- tional admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in po ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is fudden aftonishment , and the fecond ra- tional admiration . Sublimity is produced by ag gregation , and littleness by difperfion . Great thoughts are always general , and confift in po ...
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... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheift , and ...
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheift , and ...
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