The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having con- sulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his ...
... play of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having con- sulted on this great occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his ...
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... play it is difficult now to find the rea- son : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the rea- son : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
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... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . 4.4 The " pensive " man , at one time , walks " " unseen , " to muse at midnight , and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . 4.4 The " pensive " man , at one time , walks " " unseen , " to muse at midnight , and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather ...
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... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivoca tions , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivoca tions , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
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... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion . Its ...
... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed was not more the folly of the Puritans than of others . It had in that time a very extensive dominion . Its ...
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