Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... poem of Blenheim ' was never denied to be tolerable , even by those who do not allow its supreme excellence . It is indeed the poem of a scholar , all inexpert of war - of a man who writes books from books , and studies the world.
... poem of Blenheim ' was never denied to be tolerable , even by those who do not allow its supreme excellence . It is indeed the poem of a scholar , all inexpert of war - of a man who writes books from books , and studies the world.
Pàgina 27
... excellence ; but perhaps to his last poem may be applied what Tully said of the work of Lucretius , that it is written with much art , though with few blazes of genius . B A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose ...
... excellence ; but perhaps to his last poem may be applied what Tully said of the work of Lucretius , that it is written with much art , though with few blazes of genius . B A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose ...
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... excellence , seldom em- ployed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , ' with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show " what fine things one man of parts can say to another ...
... excellence , seldom em- ployed to any virtuous purpose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , ' with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show " what fine things one man of parts can say to another ...
Pàgina 52
... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . 10 This remark is not strictly true . It was not from the raggedness of his dress ( in which , however , he was probably too great a sloven ) , but from the tattered condition of his ...
... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . 10 This remark is not strictly true . It was not from the raggedness of his dress ( in which , however , he was probably too great a sloven ) , but from the tattered condition of his ...
Pàgina 77
... excellence . " In the Bodleian Gallery is a clever portrait by Dahl of Sprat and his son , in one piece . There is a good mezzotinto of it by Smith . He was buried in Westminster Abbey , where a monument to his memory is still to be ...
... excellence . " In the Bodleian Gallery is a clever portrait by Dahl of Sprat and his son , in one piece . There is a good mezzotinto of it by Smith . He was buried in Westminster Abbey , where a monument to his memory is still to be ...
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