The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiii
... written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped ...
... written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped ...
Pàgina xxvii
... writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is ' fantastic foppery . ' The truth , indeed , seems to be ... written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it ...
... writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is ' fantastic foppery . ' The truth , indeed , seems to be ... written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it ...
Pàgina xxx
... written in the ' grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it only Gibbon and Macaulay for pupils might well gratify a master's loftiest ambition . And ...
... written in the ' grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it only Gibbon and Macaulay for pupils might well gratify a master's loftiest ambition . And ...
Pàgina 2
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 1
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
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