The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xxvii
... elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it better . ' A ...
... elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it better . ' A ...
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... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
Pàgina 4
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on ...
Pàgina 6
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
Pàgina 7
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : — ' The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : — ' The Scotch ...
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