The Lives of the English Poets, Volumes 1-2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 16 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
... better man in England . " He is represented by Dr. Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may safely be credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials ...
Pagina 25
... better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expansion , Like gold to airy thinness beat . If they be two , they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul ...
... better claim : Our two souls , therefore , which are one , Though I must go , endure not yet A breach , but an expansion , Like gold to airy thinness beat . If they be two , they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul ...
Pagina 53
... better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of prose , nor the ...
... better way , but has not pursued it with great success . His versions of Virgil are not pleasing ; but they taught Dryden to please better . His poetical imitation of Tully on " Old Age " has neither the clearness of prose , nor the ...
Pagina 54
... better practice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then ...
... better practice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then ...
Pagina 66
... better she is ever kecking at , and is queasy ; she vomits now out of sickness ; but before it will be well with her , she must vomit by strong physic . The University , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I ...
... better she is ever kecking at , and is queasy ; she vomits now out of sickness ; but before it will be well with her , she must vomit by strong physic . The University , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I ...
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