Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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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 ...
Page 406
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
Page 464
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; enquiry was awakened , and com- prehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from his time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; enquiry was awakened , and com- prehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from his time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
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