Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageG. Olms, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 73
... least tincture of affectation or pedantry ; and his inimitable manner of diverting and enlivening the company made it im- possible for any one to be out of humour when he was in it . Envy and detraction seemed to be entirely foreign to ...
... least tincture of affectation or pedantry ; and his inimitable manner of diverting and enlivening the company made it im- possible for any one to be out of humour when he was in it . Envy and detraction seemed to be entirely foreign to ...
Page 205
... least one accidental resemblance : Hudibras wants a plan , because it is left imperfect ; Alma is imperfect , because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have ...
... least one accidental resemblance : Hudibras wants a plan , because it is left imperfect ; Alma is imperfect , because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have ...
Page 366
... least acknowledged , which ought to be thought equivalent to many other excellences , that this poem can promote no other purposes than those of virtue , and that it is written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion . But ...
... least acknowledged , which ought to be thought equivalent to many other excellences , that this poem can promote no other purposes than those of virtue , and that it is written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion . But ...
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