The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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... supply but few materials for a poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest ...
... supply but few materials for a poet . After so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly favoured by nature , or by fortune , who says anything not said before . Even war and conquest ...
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Samuel Johnson. What they wanted however of the sublime , they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence ...
Samuel Johnson. What they wanted however of the sublime , they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence ...
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... , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Samuel Johnson. falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ' t was , Like poison ...
Samuel Johnson. falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . ' It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for ' t was , Like poison ...
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... supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His ...
... supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His ...
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