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Page 40
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
Page 81
... write , he perhaps did only what his conscience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted and then habitually indulged , if ...
... write , he perhaps did only what his conscience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch the influence of his own passions , and the gradual prevalence of opinions , first willingly admitted and then habitually indulged , if ...
Page 166
... writer of the same petty size ? But thus it is that characters are written : we know somewhat , and we imagine the rest . The observation , that his imagination would probably have been more fruitful and spritely if his judgement had ...
... writer of the same petty size ? But thus it is that characters are written : we know somewhat , and we imagine the rest . The observation , that his imagination would probably have been more fruitful and spritely if his judgement had ...
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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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