The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 28
... elegance of diction have been able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their transactions are ...
... elegance of diction have been able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their transactions are ...
Pàgina 47
... elegance , and courage naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain . The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the drama are exhausted , and little remains but to talk of what is past . It has been ...
... elegance , and courage naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain . The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the drama are exhausted , and little remains but to talk of what is past . It has been ...
Pàgina 53
... elegance of his diction , and the suavity of his verse . He seldom moves either pity or terror , but he often elevates the sentiments ; he seldom pierces the breast , but he always delights the ear , and often improves the understanding ...
... elegance of his diction , and the suavity of his verse . He seldom moves either pity or terror , but he often elevates the sentiments ; he seldom pierces the breast , but he always delights the ear , and often improves the understanding ...
Pàgina 58
... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of ministers , whose disposition was very different from his own , he procured , without intention , a very liberal patronage to poetry . Addison was caressed both by ...
... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of ministers , whose disposition was very different from his own , he procured , without intention , a very liberal patronage to poetry . Addison was caressed both by ...
Pàgina 59
... elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public , that before it was reprinted it rose to five ...
... elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public , that before it was reprinted it rose to five ...
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