Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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Page 146
... judgement might be passed upon their knowledge or their arguments , experience had sufficiently shewn that their swords were not to be despised . The hero , thus compounded of swaggerer and pedant , of knight and justice , is led forth ...
... judgement might be passed upon their knowledge or their arguments , experience had sufficiently shewn that their swords were not to be despised . The hero , thus compounded of swaggerer and pedant , of knight and justice , is led forth ...
Page 166
... judgement had been less severe , may be answered , by a remarker somewhat inclined to cavil , by a contrary supposition , that his judgement would probably have been less severe , if his imagination had been more fruitful . It is ...
... judgement had been less severe , may be answered , by a remarker somewhat inclined to cavil , by a contrary supposition , that his judgement would probably have been less severe , if his imagination had been more fruitful . It is ...
Page 450
... judgements , and that reason and judgement are calm and serene , not formed by nature to make proselytes , and to controul and lord it over the imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither ...
... judgements , and that reason and judgement are calm and serene , not formed by nature to make proselytes , and to controul and lord it over the imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither ...
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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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