The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the prefent age , had the firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of ...
... true Genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to fome particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great Painter of the prefent age , had the firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of ...
Pàgina 6
... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
... true to Love . " This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and ...
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... true delights of folitary " ftudies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate " revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- tune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo differently are they fhewn ! but actions are visible ...
... true delights of folitary " ftudies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate " revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- tune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo differently are they fhewn ! but actions are visible ...
Pàgina 24
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very fhade they caft did other lights outfhine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
... true logic shew . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ' apples were demonftrative : So clear their colour and divine , The very fhade they caft did other lights outfhine . On Anacreon continuing a lover in his old age : Love was ...
Pàgina 25
... true This bravery is , fince these times fhew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abftrufe and profound is Donne's reflec- upon Man as a Microcofm : tion If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in fome proportion ; All the ...
... true This bravery is , fince these times fhew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abftrufe and profound is Donne's reflec- upon Man as a Microcofm : tion If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in fome proportion ; All the ...
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