Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those ... natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those ... natural dignity , and reduces it from strength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate ...
Pagina 123
... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is re- quired ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had be- stowed ...
... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is re- quired ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had be- stowed ...
Pagina 324
... natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt , though at last , indeed very late , he confessed that in his play there was Nature ...
... natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt , though at last , indeed very late , he confessed that in his play there was Nature ...
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