Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
Page 183
... learning too , as well as in church- preferments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learn- ing - sake , and embrace virtue for itself ; yet it is as true , that youth , which is the season ...
... learning too , as well as in church- preferments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learn- ing - sake , and embrace virtue for itself ; yet it is as true , that youth , which is the season ...
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... Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have be- stowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
... Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have be- stowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
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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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