Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 39
... kind of -poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of ...
... kind of -poesy fit for all manner of subjects . But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform structure of ...
Pagina 364
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
Pagina 383
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
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