Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page xiii
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authoritatively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authoritatively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
Page 98
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares that with the advance of the Spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
Page 149
... opinion , humour , interest , and passion . From such remarks proceeded that great number of sen- tentious distichs which have passed into conversation , ) and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge ...
... opinion , humour , interest , and passion . From such remarks proceeded that great number of sen- tentious distichs which have passed into conversation , ) and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge ...
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