The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 11
... another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There There is reafon to think that Cowley promised little . COWLEY . II.
... another may not promise to aid him in any injurious act , because no power can compel active obedience . He may engage to do nothing , but not to do ill . There There is reafon to think that Cowley promised little . COWLEY . II.
Pàgina 12
... reafon for fuppofing that he ever at- tempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed fomething to the honour of his country . Confidering Botany as neceffary to a phyfician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
... reafon for fuppofing that he ever at- tempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed fomething to the honour of his country . Confidering Botany as neceffary to a phyfician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
Pàgina 15
... reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
... reafon : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed ...
Pàgina 42
... Reafon has its proper task affigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written ...
... Reafon has its proper task affigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revelation . In the verses for Reason is a paffage which Bentley , in the only English verfes which he is known to have written ...
Pàgina 51
... twelve . The verfes of Pindar have , as he obferves , very little harmony to a modern ear ; yet by examining the fyllables we perceive them to be bles E 2 regu- regular , and have reafon enough for fuppofing that the COWLEY . 51.
... twelve . The verfes of Pindar have , as he obferves , very little harmony to a modern ear ; yet by examining the fyllables we perceive them to be bles E 2 regu- regular , and have reafon enough for fuppofing that the COWLEY . 51.
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