Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 91
... least must be allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class , by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge ; and who has shewn , by the subjects which his poetry has adorned , that it is practicable to be at once a ...
... least must be allowed to have set a good example to men of his own class , by devoting part of his time to elegant knowledge ; and who has shewn , by the subjects which his poetry has adorned , that it is practicable to be at once a ...
Pagina 137
... least forgetting it , to amuse himself with phantoms of happiness , which were dancing before him ; and will- ingly turned his eyes from the light of reason , when it would have discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never ...
... least forgetting it , to amuse himself with phantoms of happiness , which were dancing before him ; and will- ingly turned his eyes from the light of reason , when it would have discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never ...
Pagina 167
... least , he had not deserved , was such , that he broke off all correspondence with most of his contribu- tors , and appeared to consider them as persecutors and oppressors ; and in the latter part of his life declared , that their ...
... least , he had not deserved , was such , that he broke off all correspondence with most of his contribu- tors , and appeared to consider them as persecutors and oppressors ; and in the latter part of his life declared , that their ...
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