The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiii
... virtue , ' being written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies ...
... virtue , ' being written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies ...
Pàgina xiv
... virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The ...
... virtue , ' he remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The ...
Pàgina xix
... virtue . ' We are carried off our feet by the impetuosity of the torrent ; we are coerced into confessing that ' the basis of all excellence is truth ' ; into believing that he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . ' O ...
... virtue . ' We are carried off our feet by the impetuosity of the torrent ; we are coerced into confessing that ' the basis of all excellence is truth ' ; into believing that he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . ' O ...
Pàgina xxii
... Virtue . Be it so , or be it not , that the Lives ' contain such principles and illustrations of criticism as , if digested and arranged in one system by some modern Aristotle or Longinus , might form a code upon that subject such as no ...
... Virtue . Be it so , or be it not , that the Lives ' contain such principles and illustrations of criticism as , if digested and arranged in one system by some modern Aristotle or Longinus , might form a code upon that subject such as no ...
Pàgina xxiii
... virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be insulted , because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced ' ; and this on Ambrose Philips ...
... virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be insulted , because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced ' ; and this on Ambrose Philips ...
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