Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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Page 144
... ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive . Of Hudibras , the manners , being founded on opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible , and less striking . What Cicero ...
... ancient poets every reader feels the mythology tedious and oppressive . Of Hudibras , the manners , being founded on opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible , and less striking . What Cicero ...
Page 231
... ancients by the moderns , and not the moderns by the ancients ; he takes those passages of their own authors to be really sublime which come the nearest to it ; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which is only a pretty and ...
... ancients by the moderns , and not the moderns by the ancients ; he takes those passages of their own authors to be really sublime which come the nearest to it ; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which is only a pretty and ...
Page 287
... Ancients . The latter , added to this narrative , leaves no doubt of his notions or practice . So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom ...
... Ancients . The latter , added to this narrative , leaves no doubt of his notions or practice . So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man , whom ...
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