Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... common - sense continually leads him aright in the condemnation of tricks and artifices ; when once he is free of the fashion , he can track affection to its lair with a deadly precision . But , when the conven- tions of his age come ...
... common - sense continually leads him aright in the condemnation of tricks and artifices ; when once he is free of the fashion , he can track affection to its lair with a deadly precision . But , when the conven- tions of his age come ...
Pagina 57
... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
... common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a merry fellow , and , in common with most of them , to have been by nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ...
Pagina 98
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
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