Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... least acknowledged , which ought to be thought equivalent to many other excellences , that this poem can promote no other purposes than those of virtue , and that it is written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion . But ...
... least acknowledged , which ought to be thought equivalent to many other excellences , that this poem can promote no other purposes than those of virtue , and that it is written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion . But ...
Page 143
... least forgetting it , to amuse himself with phan- toms of happiness , which were dancing before him ; and willingly turned his eyes from the light of reason , when it would have discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never ...
... least forgetting it , to amuse himself with phan- toms of happiness , which were dancing before him ; and willingly turned his eyes from the light of reason , when it would have discovered the illusion , and shewn him , what he never ...
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... least . The two parts of the first line are only echoes of each other ; gentle manners and mild affections , if they mean anything , must mean the same . That Gay was a man in wit is a very frigid com- mendation ; to have the wit of a ...
... least . The two parts of the first line are only echoes of each other ; gentle manners and mild affections , if they mean anything , must mean the same . That Gay was a man in wit is a very frigid com- mendation ; to have the wit of a ...
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