Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... opinion , fit only to make verses , and less qualified for business than Addison himself . This was surely said without con- sideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own incapacity ...
... opinion , fit only to make verses , and less qualified for business than Addison himself . This was surely said without con- sideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own incapacity ...
Page 185
... opinion ; for it is very unequal , and some of the lines are rather inserted to rhyme to others , than to sup- port or improve the sense ; but the first and last parts are worked up with great spirit and elegance . His time was spent in ...
... opinion ; for it is very unequal , and some of the lines are rather inserted to rhyme to others , than to sup- port or improve the sense ; but the first and last parts are worked up with great spirit and elegance . His time was spent in ...
Page 248
... opinion could poison a politician , he would not live a day ; and , as a poet , he must have felt Pope's force of genius much more from many other parts of his works . The pain that Addison might feel it is not likely that he would ...
... opinion could poison a politician , he would not live a day ; and , as a poet , he must have felt Pope's force of genius much more from many other parts of his works . The pain that Addison might feel it is not likely that he would ...
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