The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xix
... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself ...
... character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself ...
Pàgina xxiii
... character of a distressed poet , he very easily discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of invective . He was then able to discern that , if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ...
... character of a distressed poet , he very easily discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of invective . He was then able to discern that , if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ...
Pàgina xxv
... character , in domestic relations , is , that he was severe and arbitrary . His family consisted of women ; and there appears in his books something like a Turkish contempt of females , as subordinate and inferior beings . That his own ...
... character , in domestic relations , is , that he was severe and arbitrary . His family consisted of women ; and there appears in his books something like a Turkish contempt of females , as subordinate and inferior beings . That his own ...
Pàgina 3
... character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . Abraham Cowley was born in the year one ...
... character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . Abraham Cowley was born in the year one ...
Pàgina 6
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
... characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author ...
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