The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... deserving to be neglected . He that shall peruse it will be able to mark many passages to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
... deserving to be neglected . He that shall peruse it will be able to mark many passages to which he may recur for instruction or delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
Pagina 38
... pagan or popish nation , who are justly im- patient of all indignity offered to the established religion of their country , no doubt but the author would have received the punishment he deserved . But the fate of this 38 BLACKMORE .
... pagan or popish nation , who are justly im- patient of all indignity offered to the established religion of their country , no doubt but the author would have received the punishment he deserved . But the fate of this 38 BLACKMORE .
Pagina 39
Samuel Johnson. the punishment he deserved . But the fate of this impious buffoon is very different ; for in a protestant kingdom , zeal- ous of their civil and religious immunities , he has not only escaped affronts and the effects of ...
Samuel Johnson. the punishment he deserved . But the fate of this impious buffoon is very different ; for in a protestant kingdom , zeal- ous of their civil and religious immunities , he has not only escaped affronts and the effects of ...
Pagina 42
... deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it deserves observation , that malignity takes hold only of his writings , and that his life passed ...
... deserved . His name was so long used to point every epigram upon dull writers , that it became at last a bye - word of contempt ; but it deserves observation , that malignity takes hold only of his writings , and that his life passed ...
Pagina 51
... deserving , unpretending Christian and Philosophical character , in his Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words : as for Flourish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing ...
... deserving , unpretending Christian and Philosophical character , in his Epitaph . There truth may be spoken in a few words : as for Flourish , & Oratory , & Poetry , I leave them to younger and more lively Writers , such as love writing ...
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