The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xix
... passion , for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . Where there is ...
... passion , for passion runs not after remote allusions and obscure opinions . Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy , nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . Where there is ...
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... passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to 1 V. Barnesii Anacreontem . solicit ...
... passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love ex- cellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to 1 V. Barnesii Anacreontem . solicit ...
Pàgina 30
... passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the ...
... passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend the ...
Pàgina 61
... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was ...
... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was ...
Pàgina 65
... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was ...
... passions , some were known To wish , for the defence , the crime their own . Now private pity strove with public hate , Reason with rage , and eloquence with fate . ' On Cowley . " To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was ...
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