The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
Samuel Johnson. Such blossoms to be valued only as they foretell fruits . ' compositions as West's Imitations of Spenser , however successful , ' are not to be reckoned among the great achievements of intellect , ' though they may be ...
Samuel Johnson. Such blossoms to be valued only as they foretell fruits . ' compositions as West's Imitations of Spenser , however successful , ' are not to be reckoned among the great achievements of intellect , ' though they may be ...
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... compositions it will be readily in- ferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uni- formity of ...
... compositions it will be readily in- ferred , that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uni- formity of ...
Pàgina 29
... compositions , written some as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an ...
... compositions , written some as they were dictated by a mind at leisure , and some as they were called forth by different occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an ...
Pàgina 30
... compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and ... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such varied simili- tude ...
... compositions , some striking thoughts ; but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and ... composition unrivalled and alone : such gaiety of fancy , such facility of expression , such varied simili- tude ...
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... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
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