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Pagina 269
... attention but that of pride , and drop from any memory but that of resentment . That the quarrel of these two wits should be minutely deduced is not to be ex- pected from a writer to whom , as Homer says , " nothing but rumour has ...
... attention but that of pride , and drop from any memory but that of resentment . That the quarrel of these two wits should be minutely deduced is not to be ex- pected from a writer to whom , as Homer says , " nothing but rumour has ...
Pagina 346
... attention ; it assists the apprehension and elevates the fancy . Let me likewise dwell a little on the celebrated paragraph in which it is directed that " the sound should seem an echo to the sense " ; a precept which Pope is allowed to ...
... attention ; it assists the apprehension and elevates the fancy . Let me likewise dwell a little on the celebrated paragraph in which it is directed that " the sound should seem an echo to the sense " ; a precept which Pope is allowed to ...
Pagina 390
... attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress , or sudden vicissitudes of fortune ; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of liter- ature . They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to ...
... attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress , or sudden vicissitudes of fortune ; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of liter- ature . They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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