The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that ...
... character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that ...
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... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brain , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
... character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brain , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose ...
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... character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour ; " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new ...
... character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour ; " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant general in Sir William Waller's army . But the new ...
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... character of the Long Parliament , and Assembly of Divines , was excluded ; of which the author gave a copy to the Earl of Anglesea , and which , being afterwards pub- lished , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year ...
... character of the Long Parliament , and Assembly of Divines , was excluded ; of which the author gave a copy to the Earl of Anglesea , and which , being afterwards pub- lished , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year ...
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... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterian , to ...
... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterian , to ...
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