Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to 2 Idler , ' No. 84 . 3 Rambler , ' No. 2 . expose the defects of a man with whom he had.
... learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . " Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to 2 Idler , ' No. 84 . 3 Rambler , ' No. 2 . expose the defects of a man with whom he had.
Pàgina xxii
... learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray 8 ' Boswell , ' by Croker , Ed . 1847 , p . 650 . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxiii lived with Mason and ...
... learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray 8 ' Boswell , ' by Croker , Ed . 1847 , p . 650 . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxiii lived with Mason and ...
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... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says ...
... learning , but refused the husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says ...
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... learning , and to show * There are several portraits of Cowley . The great Lord Clarendon's por- trait is now at Bothwell Castle ; a fair original ( but poorly engraved by Faithorne before his Works ) is in the Bodleian Gallery ; and at ...
... learning , and to show * There are several portraits of Cowley . The great Lord Clarendon's por- trait is now at Bothwell Castle ; a fair original ( but poorly engraved by Faithorne before his Works ) is in the Bodleian Gallery ; and at ...
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... learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily re- solving to show 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 ...
... learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily re- solving to show 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 ...
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