Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 156
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
Page 241
... easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without pre- face or dedication , and at ...
... easily de- ceive . He might have observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without pre- face or dedication , and at ...
Page 361
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of ...
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present question required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours of ...
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