The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 1
... delighted to involve it . Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the University of Dublin . In his academical ...
... delighted to involve it . Whatever was his birth , his education was Irish . He was sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the University of Dublin . In his academical ...
Pàgina 27
... delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied purity ; and though perhaps all his strictures ...
... delight was in simplicity . That he has in his works no metaphor , as has been said , is not true ; but his few metaphors seem to be received rather by necessity than choice . He studied purity ; and though perhaps all his strictures ...
Pàgina 28
... delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to early prayers , lest he should be seen at church ; he read prayers to his servants every morning with such dexterous secrecy , that Dr. Delany was six months in his house ...
... delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to early prayers , lest he should be seen at church ; he read prayers to his servants every morning with such dexterous secrecy , that Dr. Delany was six months in his house ...
Pàgina 31
... delighted with low flattery . On all common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authori- tative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of ...
... delighted with low flattery . On all common occasions , he habitually affects a style of arrogance , and dictates rather than persuades . This authori- tative and magisterial language he expected to be received as his peculiar mode of ...
Pàgina 32
... delight in revolving ideas from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagination ; but what has disease , deformity , and filth , upon which the thoughts can ...
... delight in revolving ideas from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust . The ideas of pleasure , even when criminal , may solicit the imagination ; but what has disease , deformity , and filth , upon which the thoughts can ...
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