Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... thought to refer to it at a still earlier period : - " 2nd January , 1664-5 . To my Lord Brouncker's , by appointment , in the Piazza in Covent Garden , where I occasioned much mirth with a ballet I brought with me , made from the ...
... thought to refer to it at a still earlier period : - " 2nd January , 1664-5 . To my Lord Brouncker's , by appointment , in the Piazza in Covent Garden , where I occasioned much mirth with a ballet I brought with me , made from the ...
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... thought precluded by the ancient Centos . ' To degrade the sounding words and stately construction of Milton by an application to the lowest and most trivial things , gratifies the mind with a momentary triumph over that grandeur which ...
... thought precluded by the ancient Centos . ' To degrade the sounding words and stately construction of Milton by an application to the lowest and most trivial things , gratifies the mind with a momentary triumph over that grandeur which ...
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... thought it could become nothing else . Everybody is 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 ...
... thought it could become nothing else . Everybody is 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 ...
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... thought themselves very unhappy . But to return to ' Blenheim , ' that work so much admired by some , and censured by others . I have often wished he had wrote it in Latin , that he might be out of the reach of the empty critics , who ...
... thought themselves very unhappy . But to return to ' Blenheim , ' that work so much admired by some , and censured by others . I have often wished he had wrote it in Latin , that he might be out of the reach of the empty critics , who ...
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... Thought , Diction , and Figure . ' I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he showed great judgment and reading ; and particularly had reformed the art of rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap of ...
... Thought , Diction , and Figure . ' I saw the last of these perfect , and in a fair copy , in which he showed great judgment and reading ; and particularly had reformed the art of rhetoric , by reducing that vast and confused heap of ...
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