The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... knowledge of the world , fresh from life , not strained through books . ' So late as 1759 Johnson wrote Rasselas in the evenings of a single week to pay for his mother's funeral and to discharge her debts , nor do matters seem to have ...
... knowledge of the world , fresh from life , not strained through books . ' So late as 1759 Johnson wrote Rasselas in the evenings of a single week to pay for his mother's funeral and to discharge her debts , nor do matters seem to have ...
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... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
Pàgina 18
... Knowledge ' : - ' The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfumed nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic show . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ...
... Knowledge ' : - ' The sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfumed nest , That right Porphyrian tree which did true logic show . Each leaf did learned notions give , And th ...
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Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some en- comiastic verses : - ' In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injured by extrinsic blows ; Your ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some en- comiastic verses : - ' In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injured by extrinsic blows ; Your ...
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... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
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