Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 10
... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
Pagina 164
... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
Pagina 449
... expected without solicitude , and are remembered without joy or sorrow . Of the agents we have no care : we consider not what they are doing , or what they are suffering ; we wish only to know what they have to say . Cato is a being ...
... expected without solicitude , and are remembered without joy or sorrow . Of the agents we have no care : we consider not what they are doing , or what they are suffering ; we wish only to know what they have to say . Cato is a being ...
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