Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xiii
... expected from him . He knew his strength , and that the value of his work would not depend on the minute succession of facts , but on the characters , drawn as they would be from books and men , and marked with a happiness of ...
... expected from him . He knew his strength , and that the value of his work would not depend on the minute succession of facts , but on the characters , drawn as they would be from books and men , and marked with a happiness of ...
Pàgina xiv
... expected by the readers of this edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he ...
... expected by the readers of this edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... expected . The lover continued to be under the illusions of the wedding - day till the lady died in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription , extolling the charms of her person and of her man- ners ; and when ...
... expected . The lover continued to be under the illusions of the wedding - day till the lady died in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription , extolling the charms of her person and of her man- ners ; and when ...
Pàgina lii
... expected that an Oxonian Tory should praise the Presbyterian polity and ritual , or that an eye accustomed to the hedgerows and parks of England should not be struck by the barrenness of Berwickshire and East Lothian . But even in ...
... expected that an Oxonian Tory should praise the Presbyterian polity and ritual , or that an eye accustomed to the hedgerows and parks of England should not be struck by the barrenness of Berwickshire and East Lothian . But even in ...
Pàgina 46
... expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be forgotten by his own fault , 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 ...
... expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be forgotten by his own fault , 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 ...
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