The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina ix
... Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty years of his life produced - at the instigation of the London booksellers , who sent a deputation to wait upon him on Easter Eve 1777 ; that the remuneration which he ...
... Poets- the only work of capital importance which the last twenty years of his life produced - at the instigation of the London booksellers , who sent a deputation to wait upon him on Easter Eve 1777 ; that the remuneration which he ...
Pàgina xii
... poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is to gratify a particular taste : in a word , to please . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling ...
... poet and not a ' dull collection of theorems . ' Hence we reach the cardinal proposition , that the object of poetry is to gratify a particular taste : in a word , to please . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling ...
Pàgina xv
... poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new ...
... poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new ...
Pàgina xvi
... in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them . ' In the same way , the vocabulary of a poet must be formed upon the plan of embracing ' that which he who xvi INTRODUCTION TO.
... in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them . ' In the same way , the vocabulary of a poet must be formed upon the plan of embracing ' that which he who xvi INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xvii
... poet . From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on ...
... poet . From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful images , and words to which we are nearly strangers , whenever they occur , draw that attention on ...
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