Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 41
... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical Being . It is not only when the events are confessedly miracu- lous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet ...
... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical Being . It is not only when the events are confessedly miracu- lous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect : the whole system of life , while the Theocracy was yet ...
Pagina 321
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader 83 M DRYDEN 321.
... reader may be weary , though the critick may commend . Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention . That book is good in vain , which the reader 83 M DRYDEN 321.
Pagina 440
... reader , if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him , that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? ' But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the Fourth Act , which may shew the 440 LIVES OF ...
... reader , if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him , that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? ' But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the Fourth Act , which may shew the 440 LIVES OF ...
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