Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... praise or his happiness ; he only adds deliberate to hasty folly , aggravates petulance by contumacy , and destroys the only plea that he can offer for the tenderness and patience of mankind . " - JOHNSON : The Rambler , No. 11 . For ...
... praise or his happiness ; he only adds deliberate to hasty folly , aggravates petulance by contumacy , and destroys the only plea that he can offer for the tenderness and patience of mankind . " - JOHNSON : The Rambler , No. 11 . For ...
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... praise falls on the encomiast , not upon the author ; whose performances are , what they pretend to be , the effusions of a man of wit - gay , vigor- ous , and airy . His verses to Howard show great fertility of mind , and his ' Dorinda ...
... praise falls on the encomiast , not upon the author ; whose performances are , what they pretend to be , the effusions of a man of wit - gay , vigor- ous , and airy . His verses to Howard show great fertility of mind , and his ' Dorinda ...
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... praise . It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to public honours , and are therefore not considered as rivals ...
... praise . It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to public honours , and are therefore not considered as rivals ...
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... praises , and continued long to be read , as an imitation of Virgil's Georgic ' which needed not shun the presence of the original . 3 He then grew probably more confident of his own abilities , I find it in ' A Collection of Poems ...
... praises , and continued long to be read , as an imitation of Virgil's Georgic ' which needed not shun the presence of the original . 3 He then grew probably more confident of his own abilities , I find it in ' A Collection of Poems ...
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... praise which Philips has obtained ; he can only hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , " says Gildon , " is the only tolerable production of its author . " This is a censure too dogmatical and violent ...
... praise which Philips has obtained ; he can only hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , " says Gildon , " is the only tolerable production of its author . " This is a censure too dogmatical and violent ...
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