The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 1
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
... imagination and elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friend- ship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character ...
Pàgina 31
... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfurdity has thrown toge- ther , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
... imagination is not always gratified , at leaft the powers of reflection and comparison are employed ; and in the mafs of materials which ingenious abfurdity has thrown toge- ther , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
Pàgina 56
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of this thought to . be worse for being true . The bay - leaf crackles remarkably as it burns ; as therefore this property was not affigned ...
... imagining how his crown of bays , if he had it , would crackle in the fire . It is the odd fate of this thought to . be worse for being true . The bay - leaf crackles remarkably as it burns ; as therefore this property was not affigned ...
Pàgina 75
... has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity fimplicity of the authentick narrative , and to repofe on COWLE Y. 73.
... has been always read with fubmiffive reverence , and an imagination over - awed and controlled . We have been accustomed to acquiefce in the nakedness and fimplicity fimplicity of the authentick narrative , and to repofe on COWLE Y. 73.
Pàgina 78
... imagination to place us in the ftate of them whose story is related , and by con- fequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the attention be often in- terested in any thing that befals them . To the subject , thus ...
... imagination to place us in the ftate of them whose story is related , and by con- fequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the attention be often in- terested in any thing that befals them . To the subject , thus ...
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