The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... regard to the dignity and importance of each science . I remember him in the Divinity school responding and disputing with a perspicuous energy , a ready exactness , and commanding force of argument , when Dr. Jane worthily presided in ...
... regard to the dignity and importance of each science . I remember him in the Divinity school responding and disputing with a perspicuous energy , a ready exactness , and commanding force of argument , when Dr. Jane worthily presided in ...
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... regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a story which we are accustomed to reject as false , and the manners are so distant from our own , that we know them not from sympathy ...
... regard . In this question , I cannot but think the people in the right . The fable is mythological , a story which we are accustomed to reject as false , and the manners are so distant from our own , that we know them not from sympathy ...
Pàgina 57
... regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than appro- bation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ...
... regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than appro- bation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ...
Pàgina 58
... regard to 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 ...
... regard to 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 ...
Pàgina 61
... regard , or appearance of regard , to right and wrong : whatever is contrary to this may be said of Addison ; but as agents of a party they were connected , and how they adjusted their other sentiments we cannot know . Addison must ...
... regard , or appearance of regard , to right and wrong : whatever is contrary to this may be said of Addison ; but as agents of a party they were connected , and how they adjusted their other sentiments we cannot know . Addison must ...
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