The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multi- tude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw ...
... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multi- tude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw ...
Pàgina 16
... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily infer- red , that they are not successful in representing or moving the af- fections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had ...
... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily infer- red , that they are not successful in representing or moving the af- fections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had ...
Pàgina 90
... pleased . The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judg- ment rather from books than ...
... pleased . The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judg- ment rather from books than ...
Pàgina 119
... pleased for almost a century , through all the vicissitudes of dramatic fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestic tragedy drawn from middle life . Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not ...
... pleased for almost a century , through all the vicissitudes of dramatic fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestic tragedy drawn from middle life . Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not ...
Pàgina 121
... pleased with this answer , and the wit of it seemed to affect the King ; for a certain lord coming in soon after , his majesty cried out , Oh , my lord , they say you lig with my lady . ' ' No , Sir , says his lordship in confusion ...
... pleased with this answer , and the wit of it seemed to affect the King ; for a certain lord coming in soon after , his majesty cried out , Oh , my lord , they say you lig with my lady . ' ' No , Sir , says his lordship in confusion ...
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