Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 51
... reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically ; and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with close- ness . This is a skill which Pope ...
... reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically ; and finds the art of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with close- ness . This is a skill which Pope ...
Pagina 150
... reason- able to believe , that he , who obstructed the rise of a good man without reason , would for bad reasons promote the exaltation of a villain . The clergy were universally provoked by this satire ; and Savage , who , as was his ...
... reason- able to believe , that he , who obstructed the rise of a good man without reason , would for bad reasons promote the exaltation of a villain . The clergy were universally provoked by this satire ; and Savage , who , as was his ...
Pagina 286
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring ...
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring ...
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