The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be ...
... contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be ...
Pagina 24
... contempt ; but he has the sword without the arm of Scanderbeg ; he has his antagonist's coarseness , but not his strength . Collier replied ; for contest was his delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The ...
... contempt ; but he has the sword without the arm of Scanderbeg ; he has his antagonist's coarseness , but not his strength . Collier replied ; for contest was his delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . The ...
Pagina 33
... contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry , and superior to him in critical ...
... contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry , and superior to him in critical ...
Pagina 41
... Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Black- more , being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously ...
... Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Black- more , being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously ...
Pagina 42
... contempt ; but it deserves observation , that malignity takes hold only of his writings , and that his life passed without reproach , even when his boldness of reprehension naturally turned upon him many eyes desirous to espy faults ...
... contempt ; but it deserves observation , that malignity takes hold only of his writings , and that his life passed without reproach , even when his boldness of reprehension naturally turned upon him many eyes desirous to espy faults ...
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