The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinc- tive elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes he was , he says ...
... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinc- tive elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes he was , he says ...
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... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endea- vour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
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... learning instructs , and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is sel- dom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
... learning instructs , and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is sel- dom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
Pàgina 22
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
Pàgina 37
... learning behind it ; the mo- ralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaity , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have ...
... learning behind it ; the mo- ralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaity , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have ...
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