Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained . He con- sidered poetry as the business of his life , and however he might seem to lament his occupation , he followed it with constancy ; to make verses was his first ...
... never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained . He con- sidered poetry as the business of his life , and however he might seem to lament his occupation , he followed it with constancy ; to make verses was his first ...
Page 311
... never denied to be much improved ; the allegory is very skilfully continued , the imagery is properly selected , and learnedly displayed : yet , with all this comprehension of excellence , as its scene is laid in remote ages , and its ...
... never denied to be much improved ; the allegory is very skilfully continued , the imagery is properly selected , and learnedly displayed : yet , with all this comprehension of excellence , as its scene is laid in remote ages , and its ...
Page 436
... never endeavoured or never attained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended , and a succession of images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reason ...
... never endeavoured or never attained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended , and a succession of images divides and weakens the general conception ; but the great reason ...
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