The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative_contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative_contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
Pàgina 9
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the read- er's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal re- gard by an ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the read- er's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal re- gard by an ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most ...
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... tell , cannot , however now be known ; I must therefore recom . mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be con- sidered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot , however now be known ; I must therefore recom . mend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be con- sidered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got ,? But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal So ...
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all ! And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got ,? But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal So ...
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