The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . ' He was endowed by nature with all those ...
... formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . ' He was endowed by nature with all those ...
Pàgina 11
... formed the Art of Rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap of terms , with which a long succession of pedants had encumbered the world , to a very narrow compass , compre- hending all that was useful and ornamental in poetry ...
... formed the Art of Rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap of terms , with which a long succession of pedants had encumbered the world , to a very narrow compass , compre- hending all that was useful and ornamental in poetry ...
Pàgina 12
... formed the highest expectations . Smith took his master's degree on the 8th of July 1696 : he therefore was probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his ...
... formed the highest expectations . Smith took his master's degree on the 8th of July 1696 : he therefore was probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his ...
Pàgina 16
... qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and 16 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and 16 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 27
... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to anything which my meanness produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the Plague of Athens ; a subject of which it is not ...
... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to anything which my meanness produces , would be not only injustice , but sacrilege . He published the same year a poem on the Plague of Athens ; a subject of which it is not ...
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