The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xvii
... easily receive strong impressions or delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' " It is because of its greater ...
... easily receive strong impressions or delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' " It is because of its greater ...
Pàgina xxiii
... 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 ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and ...
... 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 ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and ...
Pàgina 8
... him , his biographer has been very diligent to clear him , and indeed it does not seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily " 9 to believe to be undissembled ; a man 6 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... him , his biographer has been very diligent to clear him , and indeed it does not seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily " 9 to believe to be undissembled ; a man 6 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 13
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
Pàgina 14
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many trans- actions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many trans- actions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
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