Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... present age . One cannot always easily find the reason for which the world has sometimes conspired to squander praise . It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many ...
... present age . One cannot always easily find the reason for which the world has sometimes conspired to squander praise . It is not very unlikely that he wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many ...
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... present of wine and tobacco , which cannot be passed with- out notice . It is gay and elegant , and exhibits several artful accommodations of classic expressions to new purposes . It seems better turned than the odes of Hannes . " 6 To ...
... present of wine and tobacco , which cannot be passed with- out notice . It is gay and elegant , and exhibits several artful accommodations of classic expressions to new purposes . It seems better turned than the odes of Hannes . " 6 To ...
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... present age permits me to speak ; of the dead , I may say something . One of them had made the greatest progress in the study of the law of nature and nations of any one I know . He had perfectly mastered , and even improved , the ...
... present age permits me to speak ; of the dead , I may say something . One of them had made the greatest progress in the study of the law of nature and nations of any one I know . He had perfectly mastered , and even improved , the ...
Pàgina 31
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Mecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Mecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
Pàgina 48
... present lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable in- vitation . 6 Longinus . ' He had " His greatest and noblest undertaking was finished an ...
... present lodged ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable in- vitation . 6 Longinus . ' He had " His greatest and noblest undertaking was finished an ...
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