Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina x
... admirable observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid feeling the partial truth of an observation by Southey , that the poets before the Restoration were to Johnson what the world before the flood is ...
... admirable observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid feeling the partial truth of an observation by Southey , that the poets before the Restoration were to Johnson what the world before the flood is ...
Pàgina xiii
... admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to admiration , and in the religion they inculcate . He possessed the rare art of teaching what is not ...
... admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to admiration , and in the religion they inculcate . He possessed the rare art of teaching what is not ...
Pàgina xix
... admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I ... admirable narrative ; Todd is more full and accurate , and Brydges more enthusiastic and impartial , but the former is ...
... admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I ... admirable narrative ; Todd is more full and accurate , and Brydges more enthusiastic and impartial , but the former is ...
Pàgina xxi
... admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon as one of the best biogra- phies in the English language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was ...
... admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon as one of the best biogra- phies in the English language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was ...
Pàgina xxiii
... admired the Elegy , he respected Gray's learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkes- worth ...
... admired the Elegy , he respected Gray's learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkes- worth ...
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