Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... tion is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflec- tion and comparison are employed ; and in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
... tion is not always gratified , at least the powers of reflec- tion and comparison are employed ; and in the mass of materials which ingenious absurdity has thrown together , genuine wit and useful knowledge may be sometimes found ...
Pagina 41
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
Pagina 278
... tion was rather useful than entertaining . He declares of himself that he was saturnine , and not one of those whose ... tion disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exer- tion , and suffers them not to speak till the time of ...
... tion was rather useful than entertaining . He declares of himself that he was saturnine , and not one of those whose ... tion disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exer- tion , and suffers them not to speak till the time of ...
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