The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiii
... expected . The tendency betrays itself perhaps , more strongly than anywhere else in the admirable Preface to Shakespeare , where he imputes it as a fault to the dramatist that he seems to write without any moral purpose , ' and where ...
... expected . The tendency betrays itself perhaps , more strongly than anywhere else in the admirable Preface to Shakespeare , where he imputes it as a fault to the dramatist that he seems to write without any moral purpose , ' and where ...
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... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
Pàgina 10
... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired discontented into Surrey . ' ' He was now , ' says the courtly Sprat , ' weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed ...
... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired discontented into Surrey . ' ' He was now , ' says the courtly Sprat , ' weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been perplexed ...
Pàgina 71
... expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
... expected , yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
Pàgina 76
... expected the Paradise Lost . He published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was vomited out of the university , he answers , in general terms ; " The Fellows of ...
... expected the Paradise Lost . He published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was vomited out of the university , he answers , in general terms ; " The Fellows of ...
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