The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 3
... imagination , always upon the wing , and never tired with aspiring . Hence it was that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having anything in them mean and trifling ...
... imagination , always upon the wing , and never tired with aspiring . Hence it was that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having anything in them mean and trifling ...
Pàgina 7
... imagination , and a cool judgment , could possibly bestow on it . The epic , lyric , elegiac , every sort of poetry he touched upon ( and he had touched upon a great variety ) , was raised to its proper height , and the differences ...
... imagination , and a cool judgment , could possibly bestow on it . The epic , lyric , elegiac , every sort of poetry he touched upon ( and he had touched upon a great variety ) , was raised to its proper height , and the differences ...
Pàgina 46
... imagination , and assimilated to common life ; the diction is exquisitely harmonious , and soft or sprightly as occasion requires . The character of Lothario seems to have been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace , but he has excelled ...
... imagination , and assimilated to common life ; the diction is exquisitely harmonious , and soft or sprightly as occasion requires . The character of Lothario seems to have been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace , but he has excelled ...
Pàgina 47
... imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a personage truly tragical , of high spirit , and violent passions , great with tempestuous dignity , and ...
... imagination . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a personage truly tragical , of high spirit , and violent passions , great with tempestuous dignity , and ...
Pàgina 65
... imagination somewhat warped ; but of this perversion he has made very little use . The irregularities in Sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the perpetual pressure of ...
... imagination somewhat warped ; but of this perversion he has made very little use . The irregularities in Sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the perpetual pressure of ...
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