Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 149
... performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that merely makes a book from books may be useful , but can scarcely be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide beside him unseen or unobserved . He had ...
... performance are those which retired study and native wit cannot supply . He that merely makes a book from books may be useful , but can scarcely be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide beside him unseen or unobserved . He had ...
Pagina 269
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
Pagina 300
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathematicians ...
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathematicians ...
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