Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina x
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
... criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter a date ...
Pagina xiii
... criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage , into the service ...
... criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage , into the service ...
Pagina 13
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not improper to give some account . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , un- luckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead ...
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