The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xxiv
... published but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth ; if every dreamer of inno- vations may propagate his projects , there can be no settlement ; if every murmurer at government ...
... published but what civil authority shall have previously approved , power must always be the standard of truth ; if every dreamer of inno- vations may propagate his projects , there can be no settlement ; if every murmurer at government ...
Pàgina 3
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
Pàgina 4
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that ' poets are scarce thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . ' This obligation to ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that ' poets are scarce thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love . ' This obligation to ...
Pàgina 5
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose mind is more on things than words , con- tribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose mind is more on things than words , con- tribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable ...
Pàgina 6
... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something , suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that ' his desire ...
... published his poems , with a preface , in which he seems to have inserted something , suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation of his loyalty . In this preface he declares , that ' his desire ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1 Samuel Johnson,John Hepburn Millar Visualització completa - 1896 |
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