Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina vi
... excellence of his writings THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651–1685 . t 225 Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His ...
... excellence of his writings THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651–1685 . t 225 Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His ...
Pàgina xiii
... excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his ' Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to ...
... excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his ' Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to ...
Pàgina xvi
... excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can por- tray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable ...
... excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can por- tray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable ...
Pàgina 41
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , " who had means enough of information , that ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , " who had means enough of information , that ...
Pàgina 47
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing atten- tion and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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