The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
Pàgina 20
... pleasures of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasures of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil impassive and at leisure ; as ...
Pàgina 41
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
... pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by ...
Pàgina 49
... But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , VOL . I. C and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the COWLEY . 49.
... But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , VOL . I. C and uniform structure of the stanzas , by which the COWLEY . 49.
Pàgina 58
... Tasso endeavours to represent the splendours and pleasures of the regions of happiness . Tasso affords images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , how- ever , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's 58 COWLEY .
... Tasso endeavours to represent the splendours and pleasures of the regions of happiness . Tasso affords images , and Cowley sentiments . It happens , how- ever , that Tasso's description affords some reason for Rymer's 58 COWLEY .
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