The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... mind , ' and which are to please for more than a day , the first essential ingredient is novelty . There must be something unexpected , something surprising . In Lycidas there is no art ' because there is nothing new . ' ' The pleasures ...
... mind , ' and which are to please for more than a day , the first essential ingredient is novelty . There must be something unexpected , something surprising . In Lycidas there is no art ' because there is nothing new . ' ' The pleasures ...
Pàgina xvi
... mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' The four stanzas beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads ...
... mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo . ' The four stanzas beginning , " Yet even these bones , " are to me , ' says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads ...
Pàgina xix
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
... mind to an elaborate purgation of his character from crimes which he was never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never saw , complains of jealousy ...
Pàgina xxi
... mind ' works with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease ...
... mind ' works with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble . He has a kind of strutting dignity , and is tall by walking on tiptoe . His art and his struggle are too visible , and there is too little appearance of ease ...
Pàgina xxiv
... mind which it possesses , an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anarchy , an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound , with very little care what shall ...
... mind which it possesses , an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and anarchy , an impetuous eagerness to subvert and confound , with very little care what shall ...
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