The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and ...
... deaths can supply but few materials for a poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and ...
Pàgina xxx
... death , the sound and beneficial con- vention he had established was mimicked , distorted , burlesqued , almost beyond recognition , by the blundering ingenuity , not only of pedants and blockheads , but , of many people by no means to ...
... death , the sound and beneficial con- vention he had established was mimicked , distorted , burlesqued , almost beyond recognition , by the blundering ingenuity , not only of pedants and blockheads , but , of many people by no means to ...
Pàgina 7
... death . This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or ...
... death . This is no favourable representation , yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or ...
Pàgina 8
... death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no ap- pearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no ...
... death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no ap- pearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no ...
Pàgina 19
... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When found in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . ' That the chaos was harmonised ...
... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When found in every other part , Her sacrifice is found without an heart . For the last tempest of my death Shall sigh out that too , with my breath . ' That the chaos was harmonised ...
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