Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 88
... passion in the language of nature . But the truth is , these elegies have neither passion , nature , nor manners . Where there is fiction , there is no passion ; he that describes himself as a shep- herd , and his Neaera or Delia as a ...
... passion in the language of nature . But the truth is , these elegies have neither passion , nature , nor manners . Where there is fiction , there is no passion ; he that describes himself as a shep- herd , and his Neaera or Delia as a ...
Pagina 180
... passion that happened to be excited by the presence of its object , and that slavery to his passions reciprocally pro- duced a life irregular and dissipated . He was not master of his own motions , nor could promise any thing for the ...
... passion that happened to be excited by the presence of its object , and that slavery to his passions reciprocally pro- duced a life irregular and dissipated . He was not master of his own motions , nor could promise any thing for the ...
Pagina 280
... Passion , ante- cedent to reason and observation , must have an object independent of human contrivance ; for there can ... passions , appetites , and habits . To the Characters of Men he added soon after , in an Epistle supposed to have ...
... Passion , ante- cedent to reason and observation , must have an object independent of human contrivance ; for there can ... passions , appetites , and habits . To the Characters of Men he added soon after , in an Epistle supposed to have ...
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