The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dig nity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
... diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dig nity of great abilities , he naturally expected ample ...
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... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ; he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be consi ...
... diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ; he depresses it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be consi ...
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... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our pre- sent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
... diction shews nothing of the mould of time , and the sentiments are at no great distance from our pre- sent habitudes of thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ...
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... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following Odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficien- cies of language be ...
... diction , could imagine , either waking or dreaming , that he imitated Pindar . In the following Odes , where Cowley chooses his own subjects , he sometimes rises to dignity truly Pindaric ; and , if some deficien- cies of language be ...
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... diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
... diction was , in his own time , censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
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