Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1977 - 461 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , ' business , ' says Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ' ; and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in ...
... occasion the Virgilian lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , ' business , ' says Sprat , ' passed of course into other hands ' ; and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in ...
Pagina 192
... occasion had only administered the opportunity of saying what he had thoroughly considered , which gave a great lustre to all he said ; which yet was rather of delight than weight . There needs no more be said to extol the excellence ...
... occasion had only administered the opportunity of saying what he had thoroughly considered , which gave a great lustre to all he said ; which yet was rather of delight than weight . There needs no more be said to extol the excellence ...
Pagina 334
... occasion ; and if he had been able to pick single occasions , he had never founded the whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and ...
... occasion ; and if he had been able to pick single occasions , he had never founded the whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and ...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson,George Birkbeck Norman Hill Fragmentweergave - 1968 |
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