The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
Pàgina 16
... 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 general , and consist in positions ...
... 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 general , and consist in positions ...
Pàgina 34
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many exam- ples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
... whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many exam- ples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read , and ...
Pàgina 35
... whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
... whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a ...
Pàgina 37
... whole work is very im- perfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice dis- criminations ...
... whole work is very im- perfectly shewn by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice dis- criminations ...
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