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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... passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some mea- sure the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate ...
... passion . This consideration cannot but abate in some mea- sure the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ela- borate ...
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... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy ad- mits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
... passion ; a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy ad- mits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the ...
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... passions , some were known " To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . " Now private pity strove with public hate , " Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . " On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown ; " Yet what he ...
... passions , some were known " To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . " Now private pity strove with public hate , " Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . " On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown ; " Yet what he ...
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... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objec- tions , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and de- sire superinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
... passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted , and then habitually indulged ; if objec- tions , by being overlooked , were forgotten , and de- sire superinduced conviction ; he yet shared only the common ...
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... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Pas sion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs , and fauns with cloven heel . Where there ...
... passion ; for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Pas sion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs , and fauns with cloven heel . Where there ...
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