The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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... present age has covered itself with glory . The modern literary historian will spend years in discovering the date of anybody's birth , and will exalt with the name of biography two swelling volumes composed in equal parts of parish ...
... present age has covered itself with glory . The modern literary historian will spend years in discovering the date of anybody's birth , and will exalt with the name of biography two swelling volumes composed in equal parts of parish ...
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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richard- son's treatise . 6 By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into West- minster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richard- son's treatise . 6 By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into West- minster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
Pàgina 2
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richard- son's treatise . 6 By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into West- minster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richard- son's treatise . 6 By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into West- minster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat ...
Pàgina 6
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostenta- tious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostenta- tious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
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