The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xx
... means of making new things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody , then ' what is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good until it has ...
... means of making new things familiar and familiar things new , is to afford pleasure . Pleasure to whom ? If it be pleasure to any- body and everybody , then ' what is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good until it has ...
Pàgina xxv
... mean and penurious education . He thought woman made only for obedience , and man only for rebellion . ' He must indeed be a cold - blooded and lethargic Tory who can read these lines without partaking something of the glow and the ...
... mean and penurious education . He thought woman made only for obedience , and man only for rebellion . ' He must indeed be a cold - blooded and lethargic Tory who can read these lines without partaking something of the glow and the ...
Pàgina xxx
... means to be placed in either of these classes . Of all such writers no more need be said than that they richly deserved to have applied to them what Burke in his happiest moment said of one Croft , who communicated to Johnson the ...
... means to be placed in either of these classes . Of all such writers no more need be said than that they richly deserved to have applied to them what Burke in his happiest moment said of one Croft , who communicated to Johnson the ...
Pàgina 6
... means enough of information , that , what- ever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
... means enough of information , that , what- ever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
Pàgina 16
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
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