Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 15
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
... less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of them , however , are preserved by their inherent excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's Ode on Namur has , in some parts , such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers ...
Pagina 133
Samuel Johnson. not less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now ...
Samuel Johnson. not less melancholy , was less affecting , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now ...
Pagina 268
... less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the depar- ture of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an un- expected death , for she had ...
... less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the depar- ture of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an un- expected death , for she had ...
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