Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Criticism was for a while lost in wonder : no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of ... critics , they think the flying island is the least entertaining ; —it is agreed that part was not writ by the same ...
... Criticism was for a while lost in wonder : no rules of judgement were applied to a book written in open defiance of ... critics , they think the flying island is the least entertaining ; —it is agreed that part was not writ by the same ...
Page 61
... criticism see Swift's Works , i . 122 . 3 Steele wrote of him in The Englishman , Feb. 15 , 1714 , No. 57 : - ' I forbear giving him what he de- serves ; for no other reason but that I know his sensibility of reproach is such as that he ...
... criticism see Swift's Works , i . 122 . 3 Steele wrote of him in The Englishman , Feb. 15 , 1714 , No. 57 : - ' I forbear giving him what he de- serves ; for no other reason but that I know his sensibility of reproach is such as that he ...
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... criticism of him see Swift's Works , i . 415. See also ante , DORSET , 6 . Of Delany's Observations T. Sheridan wrote in 1784 , that ' while Orrery's book went through several editions , it , incomparably superior , still remains unsold ...
... criticism of him see Swift's Works , i . 415. See also ante , DORSET , 6 . Of Delany's Observations T. Sheridan wrote in 1784 , that ' while Orrery's book went through several editions , it , incomparably superior , still remains unsold ...
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... criticism . Since Sam . Johnson we have been knocked about by critics of more brilliancy than authority , and I feel the want of an authority . ' W. CORY , Letters , & c . , p . 547 . Spence records , on Pope's au- thority , that he was ...
... criticism . Since Sam . Johnson we have been knocked about by critics of more brilliancy than authority , and I feel the want of an authority . ' W. CORY , Letters , & c . , p . 547 . Spence records , on Pope's au- thority , that he was ...
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... Criticism has furnished proofs that at one period of his life he felt the charm of a sober and sub- dued style . ' WORDSWORTH , Me- moirs , 1851 , ii . 221 . For Cowley see ante , COWLEY , 6 . 16 His time was now spent wholly in reading ...
... Criticism has furnished proofs that at one period of his life he felt the charm of a sober and sub- dued style . ' WORDSWORTH , Me- moirs , 1851 , ii . 221 . For Cowley see ante , COWLEY , 6 . 16 His time was now spent wholly in reading ...
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