Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 110
... genius , and evenness of mind , of a serenity not to be ruffled , and an imagination not to be sup- pressed . During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance , he was with- out lodging , and often ...
... genius , and evenness of mind , of a serenity not to be ruffled , and an imagination not to be sup- pressed . During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance , he was with- out lodging , and often ...
Page 146
... genius of a writer to an annual panegyric , shewed in the Queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a gr ater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , by ...
... genius of a writer to an annual panegyric , shewed in the Queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a gr ater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , by ...
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... genius , though without common sense ; so that his genius , having no guide , was perpetually liable to degenerate into bombast . This made him pass a foolish youth , the sport of peers and poets : but his having a very good heart ...
... genius , though without common sense ; so that his genius , having no guide , was perpetually liable to degenerate into bombast . This made him pass a foolish youth , the sport of peers and poets : but his having a very good heart ...
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