The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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Pàgina 41
... virtue or of truth . 66 Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general , while others make themselves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
... virtue or of truth . 66 Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general , while others make themselves pleasant with the principles of the Christian . Of the last kind , this age has seen a ...
Pàgina 42
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it ...
... virtues and vices produce an equal diversity in the dispositions and manners of mankind ; whence it comes to pass , that as many monstrous and absurd productions are found in the moral as in the intellectual world . How surprising is it ...
Pàgina 46
... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved ; his name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a by- word of contempt : but it deserves observation , that ...
... virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved ; his name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a by- word of contempt : but it deserves observation , that ...
Pàgina 48
... virtue . " As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from ' Prince Arthur , ' the song of Mopas , mentioned by Molyneux . " But that which Arthur with most pleasure heard Were ...
... virtue . " As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from ' Prince Arthur , ' the song of Mopas , mentioned by Molyneux . " But that which Arthur with most pleasure heard Were ...
Pàgina 115
... virtues . His subjects are commonly such as require no great depth of thought or energy of expression . His Fables are ... Virtue her last efforts made , You brought your Clio to the virgin's aid . Addison's papers in the ' Spectator ...
... virtues . His subjects are commonly such as require no great depth of thought or energy of expression . His Fables are ... Virtue her last efforts made , You brought your Clio to the virgin's aid . Addison's papers in the ' Spectator ...
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