The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 1253 pàgines |
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... and it was his happi- nefs to have feveral contemporaries and fellow- ftudents who exercifed and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming fo deferv- B 2 edly edly in favour with this age , and fo good SMITH . 3.
... and it was his happi- nefs to have feveral contemporaries and fellow- ftudents who exercifed and excited this virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming fo deferv- B 2 edly edly in favour with this age , and fo good SMITH . 3.
Pàgina 61
... virtues of Tamerlane feem to have been arbitrarily affigned him by his poet , for I know not that hiftory gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , how- ever , of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
... virtues of Tamerlane feem to have been arbitrarily affigned him by his poet , for I know not that hiftory gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , how- ever , of the time was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
Pàgina 90
... - cifm , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator the established rule of poetical juf- tice , because his own hero , with all his virtues , was to to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain 90 ADDISON .
... - cifm , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator the established rule of poetical juf- tice , because his own hero , with all his virtues , was to to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain 90 ADDISON .
Pàgina 91
... virtue . Addison was frighted , left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to " Britons , attend . ” 66 Now , heavily in clouds came on the day , the 66 great , the important day , " when Addifon ...
... virtue . Addison was frighted , left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to " Britons , attend . ” 66 Now , heavily in clouds came on the day , the 66 great , the important day , " when Addifon ...
Pàgina 100
... which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no want either of virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . * Spence . He He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of 100 ADDISON .
... which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no want either of virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . * Spence . He He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of 100 ADDISON .
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