Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 85
... lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted for the press . The compilers of the ...
... lost his eyes ; but , having had it always before him , he continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted for the press . The compilers of the ...
Page 125
... Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrours attending the ...
... Lost little opportunity for the pathetick ; but what little there is has not been lost . That passion which is peculiar to rational nature , the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression , and the horrours attending the ...
Page 130
... Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull , as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the general judgement seems ...
... Lost ; which he who can put in balance with its beauties must be considered not as nice but as dull , as less to be censured for want of candour , than pitied for want of sensibility . Of Paradise Regained , the general judgement seems ...
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