Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
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... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
... expected from it , may be doubted . The Italian academy seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French academy thought that they refined their language , and ...
Page 162
... expected to give the sense of Horace with great exactness , and to suppress no subtilty of sentiment for the difficulty of expressing it . This demand , however , his translation will not satisfy ; what he found obscure , I do not know ...
... expected to give the sense of Horace with great exactness , and to suppress no subtilty of sentiment for the difficulty of expressing it . This demand , however , his translation will not satisfy ; what he found obscure , I do not know ...
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