The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... thoughts of the ancients in their language . Cowley without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian , " for the Stage , he produced it under the title of " The ...
... thoughts of the ancients in their language . Cowley without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of " The Guardian , " for the Stage , he produced it under the title of " The ...
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... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they cer- tainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they cer- tainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
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... thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
... thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
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... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotten is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
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... thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the ...
... thought . Real mirth must always be natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced familiarity of language , and the ...
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