Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... virtue , if he has virtue , obliges him to discharge at the return of reason . He spends his time in outrages and acknowledgment , injury and reparation . Or , if there be any who hardens himself in oppression , and justifies the wrong ...
... virtue , if he has virtue , obliges him to discharge at the return of reason . He spends his time in outrages and acknowledgment , injury and reparation . Or , if there be any who hardens himself in oppression , and justifies the wrong ...
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... virtues should be recorded by their friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation , only because they the more ...
... virtues should be recorded by their friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation , only because they the more ...
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... virtues of private men . In a word , he had been fitter for my place ; and , while his brother was writing upon the greatest men that any age ever produced , in a style equal to them , he might have served as a panegyrist on him . This ...
... virtues of private men . In a word , he had been fitter for my place ; and , while his brother was writing upon the greatest men that any age ever produced , in a style equal to them , he might have served as a panegyrist on him . This ...
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... virtues or crimes , of mankind ; one is 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 ...
... virtues or crimes , of mankind ; one is 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 ...
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... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
... virtue in themselves and others , thereby becoming so deservedly in favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity ...
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