Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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... mind not yet called forth t action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and ho to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when h wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , an diverts his sorrow by imagining how his ...
... mind not yet called forth t action can display . He knew how to distinguish , and ho to commend the qualities of his companion ; but when h wishes to make us weep , he forgets to weep himself , an diverts his sorrow by imagining how his ...
Pagina 123
... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of existence , and fur- nish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
Pagina 289
... mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance , and if we miss her , the labour of ...
... mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's pre- faces and Rymer's discourses . With Dryden we are wandering in quest of Truth ; whom we find , if we find her at all , dressed in the graces of elegance , and if we miss her , the labour of ...
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