Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 40
... admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total ...
... admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total ...
Pagina 83
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarce ...
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarce ...
Pagina 136
... reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shown with greater extent in Paradise Lost , 136 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shown with greater extent in Paradise Lost , 136 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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