Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... kind of body of English Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am ...
... kind of body of English Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am ...
Pàgina xiii
... kind of history , so constantly requisite in biographical writing , the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and that " longer premeditation " might have added to his materials , while in the lives of later writers he might by ...
... kind of history , so constantly requisite in biographical writing , the succession of facts is not easily discovered , and that " longer premeditation " might have added to his materials , while in the lives of later writers he might by ...
Pàgina xiv
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and ...
... kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable peculiarities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and ...
Pàgina xviii
... kind may be best illustrated by a passage in Lord Byron : - " Milton's the prince of poets , -so we say , A little heavy , but no less divine : An independent being in his day- Learn'd , pious , temperate in love and wine : But his life ...
... kind may be best illustrated by a passage in Lord Byron : - " Milton's the prince of poets , -so we say , A little heavy , but no less divine : An independent being in his day- Learn'd , pious , temperate in love and wine : But his life ...
Pàgina xix
... kind word would have been a real charity to the rarest merit . With less probability , other reasons are assigned : " he seemed to me , " writes Boswell , " to have an unaccountable prejudice against Swift ; for I once took the liberty ...
... kind word would have been a real charity to the rarest merit . With less probability , other reasons are assigned : " he seemed to me , " writes Boswell , " to have an unaccountable prejudice against Swift ; for I once took the liberty ...
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