The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 23
... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
Page 43
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheap- side , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmin- gled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bank- ruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he justly censured ...
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheap- side , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmin- gled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bank- ruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he justly censured ...
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... discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capa- city . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring ...
... discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capa- city . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring ...
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... discovery of the author , or that the infamous book was ever condemned to be burnt in public : whether this proceeds from the excessive esteem and love that men in power , during the late reign , had for wit , or their defect of zeal ...
... discovery of the author , or that the infamous book was ever condemned to be burnt in public : whether this proceeds from the excessive esteem and love that men in power , during the late reign , had for wit , or their defect of zeal ...
Page 52
... discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
... discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an ...
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