The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 49
... fault is its length . No poem should be long of which the purpose is only to strike the fancy , without enlightening the understanding by precept , ratiocina- tion , or narrative . A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight . Of ...
... fault is its length . No poem should be long of which the purpose is only to strike the fancy , without enlightening the understanding by precept , ratiocina- tion , or narrative . A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight . Of ...
Pagina 66
... faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the Queen brings no children , has a barren Juno . The Queen is compounded of Juno , Venus , and Minerva . His ...
... faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the Queen brings no children , has a barren Juno . The Queen is compounded of Juno , Venus , and Minerva . His ...
Pagina 67
... of his works ; for , if it has many faults , it has likewise passages which are at least pretty , though they do not rise to any high degree of ex- cellence . YALDEN . THOMAS YALDEN , the sixth son of Mr. 5 * GRANVILLE . 67.
... of his works ; for , if it has many faults , it has likewise passages which are at least pretty , though they do not rise to any high degree of ex- cellence . YALDEN . THOMAS YALDEN , the sixth son of Mr. 5 * GRANVILLE . 67.
Pagina 71
... exactly polished , though the rhymes are sometimes very ill sorted , and though his faults seem rather the omissions of idleness than the negligen- ces of enthusiasm , TICKELL THOMAS TICKELL , the son of the Reverend Richard YALDEN . 71.
... exactly polished , though the rhymes are sometimes very ill sorted , and though his faults seem rather the omissions of idleness than the negligen- ces of enthusiasm , TICKELL THOMAS TICKELL , the son of the Reverend Richard YALDEN . 71.
Pagina 89
... fault there- fore of Mr. Savage was rather negligence than ingratitude . But Sir Richard must likewise be acquitted of severity , for who is there that can patiently bear contempt , from one whom he has relieved and supported , whose ...
... fault there- fore of Mr. Savage was rather negligence than ingratitude . But Sir Richard must likewise be acquitted of severity , for who is there that can patiently bear contempt , from one whom he has relieved and supported , whose ...
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