Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 43
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties than exposing the blemishes of a laudable writing like Horace , in a long ...
... less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties than exposing the blemishes of a laudable writing like Horace , in a long ...
Page 139
... less melancholy , was less affect- ing , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
... less melancholy , was less affect- ing , because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends ; and those that formerly relieved him , thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
Page 255
... less than sixteen thousand verses , might have been despatched in less than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verses in a day . The notes , com- piled with the assistance of his mercenaries , could not be supposed to require more ...
... less than sixteen thousand verses , might have been despatched in less than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verses in a day . The notes , com- piled with the assistance of his mercenaries , could not be supposed to require more ...
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