Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... engravers . According to Spence ( Anociotes , p . 276 ) it was this illustrated edition which first set Pepe upon reading the lid when he was a boy at school . 1 " Ovid : " Ogylby's assistance he never repaid 62 LIVES OF THE POETS . 693.
... engravers . According to Spence ( Anociotes , p . 276 ) it was this illustrated edition which first set Pepe upon reading the lid when he was a boy at school . 1 " Ovid : " Ogylby's assistance he never repaid 62 LIVES OF THE POETS . 693.
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... illustration ; the names were often expressed only by the initial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were such as few had known or recollected . The subject itself had nothing generally interesting , for whom ...
... illustration ; the names were often expressed only by the initial and final letters , and , if they had been printed at length , were such as few had known or recollected . The subject itself had nothing generally interesting , for whom ...
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... illustration , and embellishments must all be Pope's . These principles it is not my business to clear from ob- scurity , dogmatism , or falsehood ; but they were not immediately examined ; philosophy and poetry have not often the same ...
... illustration , and embellishments must all be Pope's . These principles it is not my business to clear from ob- scurity , dogmatism , or falsehood ; but they were not immediately examined ; philosophy and poetry have not often the same ...
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... illustrated with a ray of your own , as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified . I am sure I like it better than I did before , and so will every man else . I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not ...
... illustrated with a ray of your own , as they say our natural body is the same still when it is glorified . I am sure I like it better than I did before , and so will every man else . I know I meant just what you explain ; but I did not ...
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... illustration , if he be com- pared with his master . Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope . The rectitude of Dryden's mind was sufficiently shewn by the ...
... illustration , if he be com- pared with his master . Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment were not allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope . The rectitude of Dryden's mind was sufficiently shewn by the ...
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Stran 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Stran 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
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Stran 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
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Stran 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Stran 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
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Stran 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Stran 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.