The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... excellence because it ' suggests nothing to Gray which every beholder does not equally think and feel . ' Yet even ' astonishment is a toilsome pleasure . ' ' The recurrence of the ، ... same images must tire in time . ' There must THE ...
... excellence because it ' suggests nothing to Gray which every beholder does not equally think and feel . ' Yet even ' astonishment is a toilsome pleasure . ' ' The recurrence of the ، ... same images must tire in time . ' There must THE ...
Pàgina xvi
... excellence . ' It is precisely the want of these two requisites- novelty and variety - that renders devotional poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the ...
... excellence . ' It is precisely the want of these two requisites- novelty and variety - that renders devotional poetry for the most part unpleasing . The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the ...
Pàgina xix
... excellence is truth ' ; into believing that ' he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . O righteous judge ! O excellent old man ! Turn to the life of Milton , and you find that these are the very weapons which Johnson , to the ...
... excellence is truth ' ; into believing that ' he who pro- fesses love ought to feel its power . O righteous judge ! O excellent old man ! Turn to the life of Milton , and you find that these are the very weapons which Johnson , to the ...
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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , 1 who had means enough of information , that , what ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , 1 who had means enough of information , that , what ...
Pàgina 9
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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