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Pàgina xiii
... remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment ...
... remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment ...
Pàgina xiv
... remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a ...
... remarks in the life of Gray , ' go always together , is an opinion so pleasing that I can forgive him who resolves to think it true . ' That is not the language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a ...
Pàgina xx
... remark that they ' cant of shepherds and flocks and crooks dressed with flowers ' ; and if the fact that ' they exhibit a mode of life which does not exist , nor ever existed , ' is not to be objected to Ambrose Philips's Pastorals , it ...
... remark that they ' cant of shepherds and flocks and crooks dressed with flowers ' ; and if the fact that ' they exhibit a mode of life which does not exist , nor ever existed , ' is not to be objected to Ambrose Philips's Pastorals , it ...
Pàgina xxii
... remarks upon translation in the life of Dryden , or the unapproachable com- parison of Dryden and Pope . Take , again , Johnson's know- ledge of the world , ' fresh from life , not strained through books , ' to repeat his own phrase ...
... remarks upon translation in the life of Dryden , or the unapproachable com- parison of Dryden and Pope . Take , again , Johnson's know- ledge of the world , ' fresh from life , not strained through books , ' to repeat his own phrase ...
Pàgina xxiii
... remark on Denham : ' He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being on proper occa- sions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature or by early habit debarred from it ...
... remark on Denham : ' He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being on proper occa- sions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature or by early habit debarred from it ...
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