Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xviii
... tion he had addressed to Warton and others many years before , on the danger and weakness of trusting too readily to information . “ Nothing , " he says , " but experience could evince the frequency of false informa- tion , or enable ...
... tion he had addressed to Warton and others many years before , on the danger and weakness of trusting too readily to information . “ Nothing , " he says , " but experience could evince the frequency of false informa- tion , or enable ...
Pàgina xxvi
... tion and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages , however , I have at times allowed some authors of ...
... tion and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages , however , I have at times allowed some authors of ...
Pàgina xxxv
... tion for his serious opinion was that one form of government was just as good or as bad as another — but from mere passion , such as inflamed the Capulets against the Montagues , or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens . In ...
... tion for his serious opinion was that one form of government was just as good or as bad as another — but from mere passion , such as inflamed the Capulets against the Montagues , or the Blues of the Roman circus against the Greens . In ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... tion of a needy man of letters , lodged among the pigeons ' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome . Pope's admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand ...
... tion of a needy man of letters , lodged among the pigeons ' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome . Pope's admirable imitations of Horace's Satires and Epistles had recently appeared , were in every hand ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... tion , had seen the leaders of opposition without the mask of patrio- tism , and had heard the prime minister roar with laughter and tell stories not over decent . During some months Savage lived in the closest familiarity with Johnson ...
... tion , had seen the leaders of opposition without the mask of patrio- tism , and had heard the prime minister roar with laughter and tell stories not over decent . During some months Savage lived in the closest familiarity with Johnson ...
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