The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander praise ' on Johnson . Yet it is very generally admitted that this work is the finest of his performances ; and though it has been frequently misjudged and ...
... opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander praise ' on Johnson . Yet it is very generally admitted that this work is the finest of his performances ; and though it has been frequently misjudged and ...
Pàgina xiv
... opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it ...
... opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it ...
Pàgina xxvi
... opinion that flies uncontradicted from mouth to mouth and from volume to volume , find their truest and their most aggressive expression in the page of Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him ...
... opinion that flies uncontradicted from mouth to mouth and from volume to volume , find their truest and their most aggressive expression in the page of Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him ...
Pàgina 18
... opinion concerning Manna : — " Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . ' Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some en- comiastic 16 ...
... opinion concerning Manna : — " Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . ' Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in some en- comiastic 16 ...
Pàgina 52
... opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now unfinished ...
... opinion is erroneous may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now unfinished ...
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