Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 253
... original with accidental notions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produces ambiguity in diction , and obscurity in books . To this open dis- play of unadulterated nature it must be ascribed , that Homer has fewer ...
... original with accidental notions , and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produces ambiguity in diction , and obscurity in books . To this open dis- play of unadulterated nature it must be ascribed , that Homer has fewer ...
Page 326
... original vision of Chaucer was never denied to be much improved ; the allegory is very skilfully continued , the imagery is properly selected , and learnedly displayed : yet , with all this comprehension of excellence , as its scene is ...
... original vision of Chaucer was never denied to be much improved ; the allegory is very skilfully continued , the imagery is properly selected , and learnedly displayed : yet , with all this comprehension of excellence , as its scene is ...
Page 332
... original , nothing original ever can be written . In this work are exhibited , in a very high degree , the two most engaging powers of an author . New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . A race of aerial people ...
... original , nothing original ever can be written . In this work are exhibited , in a very high degree , the two most engaging powers of an author . New things are made familiar , and familiar things are made new . A race of aerial people ...
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