The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina vii
... says of Savage , ' having no profession , became by necessity an author . ' During the next five - and - twenty years , ' writing dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work and working with vigour and haste , ' he wrote , besides much ...
... says of Savage , ' having no profession , became by necessity an author . ' During the next five - and - twenty years , ' writing dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work and working with vigour and haste , ' he wrote , besides much ...
Pàgina ix
... says Boswell , less attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a ...
... says Boswell , less attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a ...
Pàgina xiv
... says , in the life of Akenside , I have nothing to do my business is with his poetry . ' ' That poetry and virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves ...
... says , in the life of Akenside , I have nothing to do my business is with his poetry . ' ' That poetry and virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves ...
Pàgina xv
... says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new images ; the triumphal chariot of a victorious monarch can be decked only with those ornaments that have graced his predecessors . ' Gray's Ode on ...
... says anything not said before . Even war and conquest , however splendid , suggest no new images ; the triumphal chariot of a victorious monarch can be decked only with those ornaments that have graced his predecessors . ' Gray's Ode on ...
Pàgina xvi
... says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions 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 ...
... says Johnson , ' original : I have never seen the notions 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 ...
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