The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 21783 |
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... probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as tò pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is ...
... probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as tò pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is ...
Page 52
... probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , - and mimicked the manner , of Dryden ...
... probably to ridicule the reigning poet , whoever he might be . Much of the personal fatire , to which it might owe its first reception , is now loft or obfcured . Bayes probably imitated the dress , - and mimicked the manner , of Dryden ...
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... probably felt his own inferiority in theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious defender of his new profefiion . To reafon in verfe was ...
... probably felt his own inferiority in theological controverfy , he was defirous of trying whether , by bringing poetry to aid his arguments , he might become a more efficacious defender of his new profefiion . To reafon in verfe was ...
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... probably did not offer his conversation , because he expected it to be folicited ; and he retired from a cold re- ception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with such reverence of his own greatness as made him unwilling to expofe it to ...
... probably did not offer his conversation , because he expected it to be folicited ; and he retired from a cold re- ception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with such reverence of his own greatness as made him unwilling to expofe it to ...
Page 88
... probably , like his merriment , artificial and constrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure , Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal ...
... probably , like his merriment , artificial and constrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure , Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal ...
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