The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiii
... True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to ' tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment his favourite Richardson upon having excelled Rowe in moral effect . True , he could not resist the ...
... True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to ' tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment his favourite Richardson upon having excelled Rowe in moral effect . True , he could not resist the ...
Pàgina xiv
... true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired ...
... true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired ...
Pàgina xix
... true meaning is so uncertain and remote , that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . . . He who ! thus grieves will excite no sympathy : he who thus praises will confer no honour . ' The canon of sincerity ...
... true meaning is so uncertain and remote , that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found . . . He who ! thus grieves will excite no sympathy : he who thus praises will confer no honour . ' The canon of sincerity ...
Pàgina xxiii
... true kind , illuminating apparently grave sentences with its powerful , yet never glaring , light : humour none the less genuine because it is wholly free from the ostentatious and self - conscious archness which is so familiar a ...
... true kind , illuminating apparently grave sentences with its powerful , yet never glaring , light : humour none the less genuine because it is wholly free from the ostentatious and self - conscious archness which is so familiar a ...
Pàgina xxvii
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 ...
... true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction , ' or that to imagine one's - self incapable of writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 ...
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