The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
Pagina 4
... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises ...
... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises ...
Pagina 7
... never cancelled : nor that it made him think himself secure ; for at that dissolution of government which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ...
... never cancelled : nor that it made him think himself secure ; for at that dissolution of government which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ...
Pagina 12
... never before so well ex- pressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ...
... never before so well ex- pressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ...
Pagina 13
... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
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