Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 |
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Pagina 126
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Yet Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of ...
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Yet Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of ...
Pagina 152
... sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to contempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and ...
... sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to contempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and ...
Pagina 153
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it a ...
Samuel Johnson. consists in a disproportion between the style and the sentiments , or between the adventitious sentiments and the fundamental subject . It therefore , like all bodies compounded of heterogeneous parts , contains in it a ...
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