The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xxvii
... elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it better . ' Α ...
... elegance of style universally diffused . No man now writes so ill as Martin's Account of the Hebrides is written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it better . ' Α ...
Pàgina 2
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could ✓ prevail on ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could ✓ prevail on ...
Pàgina 1
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
Pàgina 2
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could ✓ prevail on ...
... elegance , of a particular provision made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could ✓ prevail on ...
Pàgina 4
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
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