The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... sometimes less than intelligent in application . This is the more creditable to the candour of recent critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered itself with ...
... sometimes less than intelligent in application . This is the more creditable to the candour of recent critics that the Lives are conspicuously and lamentably deficient in a particular wherein the present age has covered itself with ...
Pàgina xiv
... sometimes the dignity , sometimes the softness , of the verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism , and oppress judgment by overpowering pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its ...
... sometimes the dignity , sometimes the softness , of the verses , enchain philosophy , suspend criticism , and oppress judgment by overpowering pleasure . ' And while on the one hand Johnson seems to insist that not the subject but its ...
Pàgina xix
... sometimes invited and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers ...
... sometimes invited and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair , and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers ...
Pàgina xxiii
... manly confidence ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels 6 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
... manly confidence ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels 6 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
Pàgina xxiv
... sometimes disguises from the world , and not rarely from the 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 ...
... sometimes disguises from the world , and not rarely from the 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 ...
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