Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 77
... perhaps none that so completely exhibits the genius and spirit of the original . Lucan is distin- guished by a kind of dictatorial or philosophic dignity , rather , as Quintilian observes , declamatory than poetical ; full of ambitious ...
... perhaps none that so completely exhibits the genius and spirit of the original . Lucan is distin- guished by a kind of dictatorial or philosophic dignity , rather , as Quintilian observes , declamatory than poetical ; full of ambitious ...
Page 131
... perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote 134 from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour of research or dexterity of application . Of this Dr. Madden , a name which Ireland ought to honour , once gave me his ...
... perhaps this thought , though hardly a simile , was remote 134 from vulgar conceptions , and required great labour of research or dexterity of application . Of this Dr. Madden , a name which Ireland ought to honour , once gave me his ...
Page 146
... perhaps would never have seen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . That he always wrote as he would think it necessary to write now cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such as the character of his readers made ...
... perhaps would never have seen his defects , but by the lights which he afforded them . That he always wrote as he would think it necessary to write now cannot be affirmed ; his instructions were such as the character of his readers made ...
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