The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... lines ; ' So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more . ' The simile , by which an old man , retaining the fire of his youth , is compared to Ætna flaming through the snow , which Smith has used with ...
... lines ; ' So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more . ' The simile , by which an old man , retaining the fire of his youth , is compared to Ætna flaming through the snow , which Smith has used with ...
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... lines . His poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times : for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ...
... lines . His poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times : for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ...
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... lines are eminently elegant . No passages fall below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed ... line is left unfinished , nor is it easy to find an expression used by constraint , or a thought imperfectly ...
... lines are eminently elegant . No passages fall below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed ... line is left unfinished , nor is it easy to find an expression used by constraint , or a thought imperfectly ...
Pàgina 54
... lines . This character Rowe has very diligently and successfully preserved . His versification , which is such as his contemporaries practised , without any attempt at innovation or improvement , seldom wants either melody or force ...
... lines . This character Rowe has very diligently and successfully preserved . His versification , which is such as his contemporaries practised , without any attempt at innovation or improvement , seldom wants either melody or force ...
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... could not forbear some con- tempt of ' little Dicky , whose trade it was to write pamphlets . ' Dicky however did not lose his settled veneration for his friend ; but contented himself with quoting some lines of Cato , 76 LIVES OF THE ...
... could not forbear some con- tempt of ' little Dicky , whose trade it was to write pamphlets . ' Dicky however did not lose his settled veneration for his friend ; but contented himself with quoting some lines of Cato , 76 LIVES OF THE ...
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