The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina vii
... wrote , besides much that was purely ephemeral , London , 1739 ; The Life of Richard Savage , 1744 ; The Vanity of Human Wishes , 1749 ; The Rambler , 1750-52 ( in which latter year he lost his wife ) ; The Idler , 1758-60 ; and ...
... wrote , besides much that was purely ephemeral , London , 1739 ; The Life of Richard Savage , 1744 ; The Vanity of Human Wishes , 1749 ; The Rambler , 1750-52 ( in which latter year he lost his wife ) ; The Idler , 1758-60 ; and ...
Pàgina viii
... wrote Rasselas in the evenings of a single week to pay for his mother's funeral and to discharge her debts , nor do matters seem to have been sub- stantially mending with him , though perhaps we are a little too apt to dwell rather on ...
... wrote Rasselas in the evenings of a single week to pay for his mother's funeral and to discharge her debts , nor do matters seem to have been sub- stantially mending with him , though perhaps we are a little too apt to dwell rather on ...
Pàgina 11
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second the ...
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second the ...
Pàgina 15
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
Pàgina 16
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and ...
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and ...
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