The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 38
... means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and abstract , and ...
... means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and abstract , and ...
Pagina 41
... mean , that we are entertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table conversation of ingenious and learned men . " I am unwilling , however , to leave him in total disgrace and will therefore quote from another preface a ...
... mean , that we are entertained every day with more valuable sentiments at the table conversation of ingenious and learned men . " I am unwilling , however , to leave him in total disgrace and will therefore quote from another preface a ...
Pagina 46
... mean arts and dishonour- able shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with honour . The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or to discover what means ...
... mean arts and dishonour- able shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with honour . The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or to discover what means ...
Pagina 84
... mean rank in which he then appeared did not hinder his genius from being distinguished , or his industry from being rewarded ; and if in so low a state he obtained distinction and rewards , it is not likely that they were gained but by ...
... mean rank in which he then appeared did not hinder his genius from being distinguished , or his industry from being rewarded ; and if in so low a state he obtained distinction and rewards , it is not likely that they were gained but by ...
Pagina 85
... means , from banishing him into another country , she formed soon after a scheme for burying him in poverty and obscurity in his own ; and that his station of life , if not the place of his residence , might keep him for ever at a ...
... means , from banishing him into another country , she formed soon after a scheme for burying him in poverty and obscurity in his own ; and that his station of life , if not the place of his residence , might keep him for ever at a ...
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