Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 246
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now exhibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
... poetical than he had shewn before ; with elegance of description and justness of precepts , he had now exhibited boundless fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the machinery with the action as his most ...
Page 334
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost un- known ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
... poetical wonder , the translation of the Iliad ; a performance which no age or nation can pretend to equal . To the Greeks translation was almost un- known ; it was totally unknown to the inhabitants of Greece . They had no recourse to ...
Page 368
... poetical invective against the ministry , whom the nation then thought not forward enough in resenting the depredations of the Spaniards . By this piece he declared himself an adherent to the opposition , and had therefore no favour to ...
... poetical invective against the ministry , whom the nation then thought not forward enough in resenting the depredations of the Spaniards . By this piece he declared himself an adherent to the opposition , and had therefore no favour to ...
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