Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 90
... appear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears confusedly covered with leaves . Conscience , in a shape , accuses him ...
... appear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man . Man next , and Eve having by this time been seduced by the Serpent , appears confusedly covered with leaves . Conscience , in a shape , accuses him ...
Page 176
... appears first in his works , on the Prince's Escape at St. Andero ' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct , a style which per- haps will never be obsolete ...
... appears first in his works , on the Prince's Escape at St. Andero ' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct , a style which per- haps will never be obsolete ...
Page 286
... appears with no great evidence ; nor have I met with any confirmation , but in a letter of Farquhar , and he only relates that the funeral of Dryden was tumultuary and confused . Supposing the story true , we may remark that the gradual ...
... appears with no great evidence ; nor have I met with any confirmation , but in a letter of Farquhar , and he only relates that the funeral of Dryden was tumultuary and confused . Supposing the story true , we may remark that the gradual ...
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