Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 175
... learning too , as well as in church - prefer- ments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace virtue for itself ; yet it is as true , that youth , which is the ...
... learning too , as well as in church - prefer- ments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace virtue for itself ; yet it is as true , that youth , which is the ...
Page 325
... learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : verbaque provisam rem ...
... learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : verbaque provisam rem ...
Page 402
... learning or the critick's penetration . His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a ...
... learning or the critick's penetration . His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a ...
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