The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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... tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to 1 V. Barnesii Anacreontem . solicit ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to 1 V. Barnesii Anacreontem . solicit ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
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... tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
Pàgina 47
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all : And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , So ...
... tell , till I were old , I should not find that hidden mystery ; Oh , ' tis imposture all : And as no chymic yet th ' elixir got , But glorifies his pregnant pot , If by the way to him befal Some odoriferous thing , or medicinal , So ...
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