The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... supply but few materials for a 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 ...
... supply but few materials for a 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 ...
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... supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined . Yet great ...
... supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence , that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined . Yet great ...
Pàgina 28
... , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 29
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ...
Pàgina 39
... supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many ...
... supply its place . The Pindaric Odes have so long enjoyed the highest degree of poetical reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many ...
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