Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page xii
... elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous . - When Johnson sought a formal definition of poetry , he did not at once hedge himself round with all his own conventions . ' Poetry , ' he said , ' is the art of uniting ...
... elegance is put out of court as inartistic and barbarous . - When Johnson sought a formal definition of poetry , he did not at once hedge himself round with all his own conventions . ' Poetry , ' he said , ' is the art of uniting ...
Page 205
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
Page 428
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was considered by the greater part of readers ...
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was considered by the greater part of readers ...
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