Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xix
... and from the interest of its story , and the admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon 7 Misc . Works , ed . 1834 , vol . ii . p . 441 . as one of the best biographies in the English language b2.
... and from the interest of its story , and the admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon 7 Misc . Works , ed . 1834 , vol . ii . p . 441 . as one of the best biographies in the English language b2.
Pàgina xx
... language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was somewhat violently introduced , for the merits of Savage as a poet can give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a ...
... language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was somewhat violently introduced , for the merits of Savage as a poet can give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a ...
Pàgina xxiii
... language about the lyrical effusions of the fanciful Gray . Even his friendship for Collins could not extort any great approbation of his Odes . Johnson loved Collins , but he had no sympathy with his poetry and his observations on Gray ...
... language about the lyrical effusions of the fanciful Gray . Even his friendship for Collins could not extort any great approbation of his Odes . Johnson loved Collins , but he had no sympathy with his poetry and his observations on Gray ...
Pàgina xxxii
... Language Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey · 199 Purity and Excellence of his Writings . ― - THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . - Fails as Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford an Actor Great Success as a ...
... Language Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey · 199 Purity and Excellence of his Writings . ― - THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . - Fails as Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford an Actor Great Success as a ...
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... language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ...
... language have de- servedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ...
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