The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... date . Hence a considerable number of trivial errors , which the diligence of annotators has corrected . Yet most people , perhaps , will prefer Johnson wrong before Peter Cunningham right , and had rather know X INTRODUCTION TO.
... date . Hence a considerable number of trivial errors , which the diligence of annotators has corrected . Yet most people , perhaps , will prefer Johnson wrong before Peter Cunningham right , and had rather know X INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xvii
... numbers , and therefore tires by long continu- ance . ' Where the subject is able to support itself , ' it may be admissible . ' Contending angels may shake the region of heaven in blank verse ; but the flow of equal measures and the ...
... numbers , and therefore tires by long continu- ance . ' Where the subject is able to support itself , ' it may be admissible . ' Contending angels may shake the region of heaven in blank verse ; but the flow of equal measures and the ...
Pàgina xviii
... numbers , his pauses , his diction are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . ' And the splendid panegyric which closes | the life of Milton is suitably prefaced by this significant and magnanimous avowal ...
... numbers , his pauses , his diction are of his own growth , without transcription , without imitation . ' And the splendid panegyric which closes | the life of Milton is suitably prefaced by this significant and magnanimous avowal ...
Pàgina xx
... the genuineness of the admiration for Milton professed by ' readers of every class . ' The other method is to nominate a body of men - be its number great or small - whose determination shall settle the XX INTRODUCTION TO.
... the genuineness of the admiration for Milton professed by ' readers of every class . ' The other method is to nominate a body of men - be its number great or small - whose determination shall settle the XX INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xxi
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. number great or small - whose determination shall settle the matter ; and when ... numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices applauds The Bard , and sets ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. number great or small - whose determination shall settle the matter ; and when ... numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices applauds The Bard , and sets ...
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