Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina 39
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and dis- order tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Shel- donian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and dis- order tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Shel- donian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae ...
Pagina 131
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never ...
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. writer of Paradise Lost could ever write without great effusions of fancy , and exalted precepts of wisdom . The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never ...
Pagina 230
... write them , preserved them from destruction . A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row ...
... write them , preserved them from destruction . A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row ...
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