Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... nature nor life ; завточ neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that ...
... nature nor life ; завточ neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that ...
Page 74
... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to ...
... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to ...
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... natural port is ( gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
... natural port is ( gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
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