The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 15
... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
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... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
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... attention , and the wit so exuberant , that it " o'er - in- forms its tenement . ' Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in " The Double Dealer , " which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron , the ...
... attention , and the wit so exuberant , that it " o'er - in- forms its tenement . ' Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in " The Double Dealer , " which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron , the ...
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... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise , and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of na- tural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence ...
... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise , and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of na- tural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence ...
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... attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often pro- duces , are pronounced by chance . He afterwards travelled : at Padua he was made doctor of physic ; and , after ...
... attention to the business of the place ; for , in his poems , the ancient names of nations or places , which he often pro- duces , are pronounced by chance . He afterwards travelled : at Padua he was made doctor of physic ; and , after ...
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