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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... whole blame upon his judges , and to- tally to exclude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and to- tally to exclude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great ...
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... 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 than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... 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 than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
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... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admi- ration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admi- ration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in ...
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Samuel Johnson. Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the sun ...
Samuel Johnson. Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has pa- ralleled it with the sun ...
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... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , pro- duced by an author generally read , and ...
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of so great a work , pro- duced by an author generally read , and ...
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