The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
... better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him by an Irish painter : a man , he maintained , ' of a great deal of knowledge of the world , fresh from life ...
Pàgina xii
... better than that of the ear ; and the prime merit of Dryden's critical work consists in its being the criticism of a poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is ...
... better than that of the ear ; and the prime merit of Dryden's critical work consists in its being the criticism of a poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is ...
Pàgina xiii
... better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from ...
... better example ' than suicide . But , upon the whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from ...
Pàgina xiv
... better than Johnson , who , with incomparable skill , has exposed the triteness of its maxims , and the tenuity of its reasoning . Yet with what generous enthusiasm he hails that ' egregious instance of the predominance of genius ...
... better than Johnson , who , with incomparable skill , has exposed the triteness of its maxims , and the tenuity of its reasoning . Yet with what generous enthusiasm he hails that ' egregious instance of the predominance of genius ...
Pàgina xxi
... of more value than its glaring tautology suggests . At all events we are not like to come by a better , and may consider ourselves fortunate if in the less volatile region of ethics we are able to THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxi.
... of more value than its glaring tautology suggests . At all events we are not like to come by a better , and may consider ourselves fortunate if in the less volatile region of ethics we are able to THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxi.
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