The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
Pagina 16
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis- sues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis- sues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French ...
Pagina 17
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
Pagina 34
... never mentioned , and was never seen by me till I borrowed it for the present occasion . Jacob says , " it is corrected and revised for another impression ; " but the labour of 34 BLACKMORE .
... never mentioned , and was never seen by me till I borrowed it for the present occasion . Jacob says , " it is corrected and revised for another impression ; " but the labour of 34 BLACKMORE .
Pagina 39
... never denied it ; and was afterwards the perpetual and incessant enemy of Blackmore . One of his essays is upon the Spleen , which is treated by him so much to his own satisfaction , that he has published the same thoughts in the same ...
... never denied it ; and was afterwards the perpetual and incessant enemy of Blackmore . One of his essays is upon the Spleen , which is treated by him so much to his own satisfaction , that he has published the same thoughts in the same ...
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