The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina vii
... known come there . He left Oxford after only fourteen months ' residence , and earned a subsistence ( for his patrimony was no more than twenty pounds ) first as an usher in a school , and next as a book- seller's hack at Birmingham ...
... known come there . He left Oxford after only fourteen months ' residence , and earned a subsistence ( for his patrimony was no more than twenty pounds ) first as an usher in a school , and next as a book- seller's hack at Birmingham ...
Pàgina viii
... known . his biographer's happy phrase , he enjoyed a superiority of wisdom among the wise , and of learning among the learned ; and flashed his wit upon minds bright enough to reflect it . In Each year , too , brought its ' jaunt ' viii ...
... known . his biographer's happy phrase , he enjoyed a superiority of wisdom among the wise , and of learning among the learned ; and flashed his wit upon minds bright enough to reflect it . In Each year , too , brought its ' jaunt ' viii ...
Pàgina xi
... known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the inclusion in the English poets of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret and Yalden , and who excluded ...
... known passage from The Mourning Bride . What , too , we immediately ask , is to be said of the critical faculty of one who made interest for the inclusion in the English poets of Blackmore , Watts , Pomfret and Yalden , and who excluded ...
Pàgina xvi
... known ; but , few as they are , they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment , and very little from novelty of expression . ' To put the matter in another way , as familiar things must be made new , so ...
... known ; but , few as they are , they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment , and very little from novelty of expression . ' To put the matter in another way , as familiar things must be made new , so ...
Pàgina xvii
... known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated and the memory relieved . ' Now the co - operation of the syllables of every line so necessary to the music of the English heroic ...
... known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the voice is regulated and the memory relieved . ' Now the co - operation of the syllables of every line so necessary to the music of the English heroic ...
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