Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 64
... great expectations ; they would in any numerous school have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had 64 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... great expectations ; they would in any numerous school have obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had 64 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Page 88
... appear Lucifer , relat- ing and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears confusedly covered with leaves . Con- science , in a shape , accuses ...
... appear Lucifer , relat- ing and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears confusedly covered with leaves . Con- science , in a shape , accuses ...
Page 448
... appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax , nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argument , are employed to recommend to the reader his ...
... appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax , nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argument , are employed to recommend to the reader his ...
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