Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... remarks on life and on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . The criticisms are often excellent , and , even when grossly and provokingly unjust , deserve to be studied . For , however erroneous they may be , they are never ...
... remarks on life and on human nature are eminently shrewd and profound . The criticisms are often excellent , and , even when grossly and provokingly unjust , deserve to be studied . For , however erroneous they may be , they are never ...
Pagina 122
... remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con- versation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first ...
... remarks proceeded that great number of sententious distichs which have passed into con- versation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first ...
Pagina 299
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calculator will find that he despatched seven a ...
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calculator will find that he despatched seven a ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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