The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volume 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 - English poetry |
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... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular , " and though ...
... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular , " and though ...
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... virtue . 3 4 I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , ' in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such ...
... virtue . 3 4 I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , ' in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such ...
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... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole ...
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... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intel- lectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a ' Bank for Wit . ' 15 In this ...
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intel- lectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a ' Bank for Wit . ' 15 In this ...
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... virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write them- selves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does ...
... virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write them- selves , but is himself master of a good vein in poetry ; and though he does ...
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