The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in ...
... occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Some years afterwards , " business , " says Sprat , " passed of course into other hands ; " and Cowley , being no longer useful at Paris , was in ...
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... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers 12 COWLEY .
... sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers 12 COWLEY .
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... occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the ...
... occasions ; with great variety of style and sentiment , from burlesque levity to awful grandeur . Such an assemblage of diversified excellence no other poet has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , among many good , is one of the ...
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... occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a ...
... occasions , the full extent and the nice discriminations cannot be ascertained . The fable is plainly implex , formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a ...
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... occasions , debased by vulgar mouths , and contaminated by inelegant applications . Truth indeed is always truth , and reason is always reason : they have an intrinsic and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which ...
... occasions , debased by vulgar mouths , and contaminated by inelegant applications . Truth indeed is always truth , and reason is always reason : they have an intrinsic and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which ...
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