The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly 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 history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly 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 history : he has given the character ...
Pàgina 22
... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfur- dity has thrown together , genuine wit and ufeful knowledge may be fometimes found ...
... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflexion and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfur- dity has thrown together , genuine wit and ufeful knowledge may be fometimes found ...
Pàgina 41
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of this thought to be the worse for being true . The bay - leaf crackles remarkably as it burns ; as there- fore this property was not ...
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of this thought to be the worse for being true . The bay - leaf crackles remarkably as it burns ; as there- fore this property was not ...
Pàgina 54
... imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authen tic narrative , and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence as fuppreffes curiofity . We go with ...
... imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity of the authen tic narrative , and to repofe on its veracity with fuch humble confidence as fuppreffes curiofity . We go with ...
Pàgina 55
... - kind , that lived and acted with manners uncommu- nicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the ftate of them whofe ftory is re- lated , E 4 lated , and by confequence their joys and griefs are COWLEY . 55.
... - kind , that lived and acted with manners uncommu- nicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the ftate of them whofe ftory is re- lated , E 4 lated , and by confequence their joys and griefs are COWLEY . 55.
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