Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 126
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of prudence ...
... sentiments and the diction . The sentiments , as expressive of manners , or appro- priated to characters , are , for the greater part un- exceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of morality , or precepts of prudence ...
Pagina 152
... sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to contempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and ...
... sentiments . But such numbers and such diction can gain regard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to contempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and ...
Pagina 338
... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ; if ... sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man ...
... sentiment . What he had of humorous or passionate , he seems to have had not from nature , but from other poets ; if ... sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man ...
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