Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1952 - 472 pagina's |
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Pagina 49
... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable ...
... present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern ears . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable ...
Pagina 158
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
Pagina 230
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
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Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1964 |
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