Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 158
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he re- turned in a short time ...
... sufficient to support families above want , and was undoubtedly more than the necessities of life require . But no sooner had he received his pension , than he withdrew to his darling privacy , from which he re- turned in a short time ...
Page 325
... sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the poems of antiquity with judicious selection , but to have obtained sufficient power of language , and skill in metre , to exhibit a series of versification , which had ...
... sufficient for an author of sixteen not only to be able to copy the poems of antiquity with judicious selection , but to have obtained sufficient power of language , and skill in metre , to exhibit a series of versification , which had ...
Page 471
... sufficient coherence , so as that they cannot change their places without injury to the general design . His images are displayed with such luxuriance of expression , that they are hidden , like Butler's Moon , by a Veil of Light ; they ...
... sufficient coherence , so as that they cannot change their places without injury to the general design . His images are displayed with such luxuriance of expression , that they are hidden , like Butler's Moon , by a Veil of Light ; they ...
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