The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xv
... nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an ...
... nature or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an ...
Pàgina xxi
... nature . ' Johnson , to be brief , holds that he is right , and that those who differ with him are wrong , these words being used to signify conformity and disconformity , not to the whim or caprice of Johnson , but , to some abstract ...
... nature . ' Johnson , to be brief , holds that he is right , and that those who differ with him are wrong , these words being used to signify conformity and disconformity , not to the whim or caprice of Johnson , but , to some abstract ...
Pàgina xxiii
... nature or by early habit debarred from it ' ; and this on Mallet : ' It was remarked of him that he was the only ... natural language of an honest THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
... nature or by early habit debarred from it ' ; and this on Mallet : ' It was remarked of him that he was the only ... natural language of an honest THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
Pàgina 2
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
Pàgina 2
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when ... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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