Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 349
... pleasing as the English , which have both under - plot and a turned design , which keeps the audience in expectation of the catastrophe ? whereas in the Greek poets we see through the whole design at first . For the characters , they ...
... pleasing as the English , which have both under - plot and a turned design , which keeps the audience in expectation of the catastrophe ? whereas in the Greek poets we see through the whole design at first . For the characters , they ...
Page 448
... pleasing , and the praise of Marlborough , for which the scene gives an opportunity , is , what perhaps every human excellence must be , the product of good - luck im- proved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes ...
... pleasing , and the praise of Marlborough , for which the scene gives an opportunity , is , what perhaps every human excellence must be , the product of good - luck im- proved by genius . The thoughts are sometimes great , and sometimes ...
Page 465
... morality is neither dangerously lax , nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argu- ment , are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of ADDISON 465.
... morality is neither dangerously lax , nor impracticably rigid . All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argu- ment , are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of ADDISON 465.
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