Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... pleasing , must please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but ...
... pleasing , must please at once . The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected ; that which elevates must always surprise . What is perceived by slow degrees may gratify us with the consciousness of improvement , but ...
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... pleasing to discover that his piety was without weak- ness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
... pleasing to discover that his piety was without weak- ness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions of ...
Page 466
... pleasing Mille habet ornatus , mille decenter habet . His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal , on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ...
... pleasing Mille habet ornatus , mille decenter habet . His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal , on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ...
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