Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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Page 162
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
Page 249
... easily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first ...
... easily deceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first ...
Page 305
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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