The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... friends , and the same vivacity both in conversation and writing . ' He died on the 13th December 1784 , and was buried in Westminster Abbey . ' An elegant collection of the best biography and criticism of which our language can boast ...
... friends , and the same vivacity both in conversation and writing . ' He died on the 13th December 1784 , and was buried in Westminster Abbey . ' An elegant collection of the best biography and criticism of which our language can boast ...
Pàgina xii
... of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically a good man and not , like Savage , merely the friend of goodness , who was " scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer xii INTRODUCTION TO.
... of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically a good man and not , like Savage , merely the friend of goodness , who was " scarce less eminent as a moralist than as a lexicographer xii INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xxix
... friends he says of these : ' Their fondness was without benevolence and their familiarity without friendship . ' The most fastidious ' Saxon ' purist - the most enthusiastic devotee of ' those strong , plain words , Anglo - Saxon or ...
... friends he says of these : ' Their fondness was without benevolence and their familiarity without friendship . ' The most fastidious ' Saxon ' purist - the most enthusiastic devotee of ' those strong , plain words , Anglo - Saxon or ...
Pàgina 1
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but ...
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but ...
Pàgina 7
... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's 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 ...
... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's 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 ...
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