The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertise- ment , like those which we find in the French Miscellanies , con- taining a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
... mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have allotted to every Poet an Advertise- ment , like those which we find in the French Miscellanies , con- taining a few dates and a general character ; but I have been ...
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... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large gene- ral powers , accidently determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
... mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called Genius . The true Genius is a mind of large gene- ral powers , accidently determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great ...
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... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Biddle ...
... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his ... mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at Cambridge he published " Love's Biddle ...
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... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his re- putation than as they shew him to have been ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing ... minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his re- putation than as they shew him to have been ...
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... minds ; they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than ... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is ...
... minds ; they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than ... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is ...
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