The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xvi
... beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them . ' In the same way , the ...
... beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them . ' In the same way , the ...
Pàgina xxvii
... beginning of the century , assured Boswell that books in general were then miserably written . There is now , ' he declared , ' an elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is ...
... beginning of the century , assured Boswell that books in general were then miserably written . There is now , ' he declared , ' an elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is ...
Pàgina 5
... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with the representation of the Guardian , a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him ...
... beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge in his way to York , he was entertained with the representation of the Guardian , a comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him ...
Pàgina 14
... beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of ...
... beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets ; of whom , in a criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of ...
Pàgina 34
... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance ...
... beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance , and the conclusion below it in strength . The connection is supplied with great perspicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance ...
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