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In his poem on the death of Hervey, there is much praise, but little passion, a very
just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits, and such
intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display.
In his poem on the death of Hervey, there is much praise, but little passion, a very
just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits, and such
intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can display.
Pagina 127
Samuel Johnson. Known truths, however, may take a different appearance, and
be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images. This Milton has
undertaken, and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself
.
Samuel Johnson. Known truths, however, may take a different appearance, and
be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images. This Milton has
undertaken, and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself
.
Pagina 289
A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's
prefaces and Rymer's discourses. With Dryden we are wandering in quest of
Truth ; whom we find, if we find her at all, dressed in the graces of elegance, and
if we ...
A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's
prefaces and Rymer's discourses. With Dryden we are wandering in quest of
Truth ; whom we find, if we find her at all, dressed in the graces of elegance, and
if we ...
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