The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive ele- gance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive ele- gance , of a particular provision made by Nature for literary polite- ness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to shew their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
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... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
... learning instructs , and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and , though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
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... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge . The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which ...
... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge . The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , That right Porphyrian tree which ...
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... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
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