The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xxii
... desires criticism sagacious , intelligent , and minute , equally free from vagueness and from hairsplitting , need seek no further than the examination of the metaphysical school of poetry , or the masterly review of Addison's prose ...
... desires criticism sagacious , intelligent , and minute , equally free from vagueness and from hairsplitting , need seek no further than the examination of the metaphysical school of poetry , or the masterly review of Addison's prose ...
Pàgina xxiv
... desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anarchy , an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound , with very little care what shall be estab- lished . ' Again , it may ...
... desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anarchy , an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound , with very little care what shall be estab- lished . ' Again , it may ...
Pàgina xxv
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated monarchs in the State , and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected that ...
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of control , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated monarchs in the State , and prelates in the Church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected that ...
Pàgina 4
... desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
... desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
Pàgina 7
... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an ' airy nothing , and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an ' airy nothing , and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
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