The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 26
... action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
... action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , and diverts his sorrow by imagining how his crown of bays , if ...
Pagina 36
... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination ...
... action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination ...
Pagina 39
... action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than ...
... action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shewn but upon few occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than ...
Pagina 42
... action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they are ...
... action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they are ...
Pagina 63
... action , vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding - school . This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink . They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster ; but ...
... action , vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding - school . This is the period of his life from which all his biographers seem inclined to shrink . They are unwilling that Milton should be degraded to a schoolmaster ; but ...
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