Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... pleased himself with blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise ...
... pleased himself with blank verse , and supposed that the numbers of Milton , which impress the mind with veneration , combined as they are with subjects of inconceivable grandeur , could be sustained by images which at most can rise ...
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... pleased with that work . But to judge rightly of the other requires a perfect mastery of poetry and criticism , a just contempt of the little turns and witticisms now in vogue , and , above all , a perfect understanding of poetical ...
... pleased with that work . But to judge rightly of the other requires a perfect mastery of poetry and criticism , a just contempt of the little turns and witticisms now in vogue , and , above all , a perfect understanding of poetical ...
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... pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander , -the one would admire the courage and great ...
... pleased with con- templating a beau , the other a hero : even from the same object they would draw different ideas ; Achilles would appear in very different lights to Thersites and Alexander , -the one would admire the courage and great ...
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... pleased with a glare of false thoughts , little turns , and unnatural fustian - at an age at which Cowley , Dryden , and I had almost said Virgil , were inconsiderable ? So soon was his imagination at its full strength , his judgment ...
... pleased with a glare of false thoughts , little turns , and unnatural fustian - at an age at which Cowley , Dryden , and I had almost said Virgil , were inconsiderable ? So soon was his imagination at its full strength , his judgment ...
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... without interruption or con- fusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distin- guish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others ,
... without interruption or con- fusion . Some indeed of his acquaintance , who were pleased to distin- guish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others ,
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