Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 338
... excellence of other passages ; such as the formation and dissolution of Moore , the account of the Traveller , the misfortune of the Florist , and the crowded thoughts and stately numbers which dignify the concluding paragraph . The ...
... excellence of other passages ; such as the formation and dissolution of Moore , the account of the Traveller , the misfortune of the Florist , and the crowded thoughts and stately numbers which dignify the concluding paragraph . The ...
Page 340
... excellence may be pro- perly estimated , I recommend a comparison of his Characters of Women with Boileau's Satire ; it will then be seen with how much more perspicacity female nature is investigated , and female excellence selected ...
... excellence may be pro- perly estimated , I recommend a comparison of his Characters of Women with Boileau's Satire ; it will then be seen with how much more perspicacity female nature is investigated , and female excellence selected ...
Page 405
... the reigning taste by the fate of Dyer's Fleece ; for , if that were ill received , he should not think it any longer reasonable to expect fame from excellence . ' SHENSTONE WILLIAM SHENSTONE , the son of Thomas Shenstone and DYER 405.
... the reigning taste by the fate of Dyer's Fleece ; for , if that were ill received , he should not think it any longer reasonable to expect fame from excellence . ' SHENSTONE WILLIAM SHENSTONE , the son of Thomas Shenstone and DYER 405.
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