The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life ...
... elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life ...
Pagina 2
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falk- land , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falk- land , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford ...
Pagina 3
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch ...
Pagina 4
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
Pagina 7
... elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious- ness of sentiment . successful in representing or moving the affec- | inquiry ; either something already learned is to tions . As they were wholly ...
... elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copious- ness of sentiment . successful in representing or moving the affec- | inquiry ; either something already learned is to tions . As they were wholly ...
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