The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... 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 , that , like the junior compositions of ...
... 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 , that , like the junior compositions of ...
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... never yet saw translated ; ' Meo sum pauper in ære . ' At his coming to town , no man was more surrounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
... never yet saw translated ; ' Meo sum pauper in ære . ' At his coming to town , no man was more surrounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
Pàgina 11
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
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... never otherwise heard . His Longinus he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the stage , with the story ...
... never otherwise heard . His Longinus he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the stage , with the story ...
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... never discovered his hours of reading or method of study , but involved himself in affected silence , and fed his own vanity with their admiration and conjectures . One practice he had , which was easily observed : if any thought or ...
... never discovered his hours of reading or method of study , but involved himself in affected silence , and fed his own vanity with their admiration and conjectures . One practice he had , which was easily observed : if any thought or ...
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