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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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon distinguish- ed . He was wont , says Sprat ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster - school , where he was soon distinguish- ed . He was wont , says Sprat ...
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... present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with su- perstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of ha- ving consulted on ...
... present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with su- perstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of ha- ving consulted on ...
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... present , but hardly appropri- ated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly appropri- ated . The ode on wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
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... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spright- liness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their spright- liness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
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... present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
... present habitudes of thought . Real mirth must be always natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of ...
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