Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
Page 151
... performance , Nothing must be con- sidered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful protector . In the first part of the sentence ...
... performance , Nothing must be con- sidered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ; and nothing is a very powerful protector . In the first part of the sentence ...
Page 196
... performance , which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things , and are quitted in time for something useful : they are flowers fragrant and fair , but of short duration ; or they ...
... performance , which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things , and are quitted in time for something useful : they are flowers fragrant and fair , but of short duration ; or they ...
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