Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 83
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarce ...
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which , however , he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attendance scarce ...
Page 236
... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of mirth is always observing the follies and weaknesses , the serious writer the virtues or crimes of mankind ; one is ...
... Admiration and laughter are of such opposite natures , that they are seldom created by the same person . The man of mirth is always observing the follies and weaknesses , the serious writer the virtues or crimes of mankind ; one is ...
Page 394
... admiration is the wish to admire . Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives , and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected ...
... admiration is the wish to admire . Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives , and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected ...
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