Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 71
... performance , on the man who hastens home , be- cause his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding - school . This is the period of his ...
... performance , on the man who hastens home , be- cause his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reaches the scene of action , vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding - school . This is the period of his ...
Pagina 161
... performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the ...
... performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the ...
Pagina 238
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
... performance was so much disapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to ... performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are ...
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