The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently familiar , nor does it call for any better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him ...
... manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently familiar , nor does it call for any better illustration than is afforded by the scheme of existence in London upon thirty pounds a year which was expounded to him ...
Pàgina xxvi
... manner ; such are the stereotyped views which critic after critic repeats , and which , like many another opinion that flies uncontradicted from mouth to mouth and from volume to volume , find their truest and their most aggressive ...
... manner ; such are the stereotyped views which critic after critic repeats , and which , like many another opinion that flies uncontradicted from mouth to mouth and from volume to volume , find their truest and their most aggressive ...
Pàgina xxvii
... manner ' by applying a French catchword to the Lives at least seven times in seven pages - failed to grasp the significance of the work which Johnson accomplished for English prose . Regularity , uniformity , precision , balance ...
... manner ' by applying a French catchword to the Lives at least seven times in seven pages - failed to grasp the significance of the work which Johnson accomplished for English prose . Regularity , uniformity , precision , balance ...
Pàgina xxviii
... manner of writing to be lightly spoken of which Johnson commended with such discriminating , yet generous , warmth , as it manifested itself in Addison , and which reached its highest level of conscious strength in Swift , of scrupulous ...
... manner of writing to be lightly spoken of which Johnson commended with such discriminating , yet generous , warmth , as it manifested itself in Addison , and which reached its highest level of conscious strength in Swift , of scrupulous ...
Pàgina 6
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness ...
... manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness ...
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