The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina ix
... effect — as have since only once been rivalled and never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital ...
... effect — as have since only once been rivalled and never excelled . The attempt in this place to condense that masterpiece were vain . It must suffice to note that Johnson undertook The Lives of the Poets- the only work of capital ...
Pàgina xiii
... effect . True , he could not resist the taking a parting shot at Gray , and therefore opined that The Bard— ( which pro- moted no truth moral or political ' that he could see ) - ' might have been concluded with an action of better ...
... effect . True , he could not resist the taking a parting shot at Gray , and therefore opined that The Bard— ( which pro- moted no truth moral or political ' that he could see ) - ' might have been concluded with an action of better ...
Pàgina xv
... effect is co - extended with rational nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike ...
... effect is co - extended with rational nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike ...
Pàgina xviii
... effect of Cowley's ' amatory ditties ' ? ' It is surely not difficult'- -so run his words - ' in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world to find useful studies or serious employment . No xviii INTRODUCTION TO.
... effect of Cowley's ' amatory ditties ' ? ' It is surely not difficult'- -so run his words - ' in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world to find useful studies or serious employment . No xviii INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xxiii
... effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be insulted , because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced ' ; and this on Ambrose ...
... effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be insulted , because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced ' ; and this on Ambrose ...
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