The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 56
... excellence to the original position , the fun- damental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas ...
... excellence to the original position , the fun- damental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as a specimen from " Prince Arthur , " the song of Mopas ...
Page 73
... re- ception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that VOL . II . E " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and GAY . 73.
... re- ception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that VOL . II . E " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and GAY . 73.
Page 84
... excellence with the ho- nours due to another . From him whom we reve- rence for his beneficence , we do not willingly withhold the praise of genius : a man of exalted merit becomes at once an accomplished writer , as a beauty finds no ...
... excellence with the ho- nours due to another . From him whom we reve- rence for his beneficence , we do not willingly withhold the praise of genius : a man of exalted merit becomes at once an accomplished writer , as a beauty finds no ...
Page 86
... excellence . THO YALDEN . HOMAS YALDEN , the sixth son of Mr. John Yalden , of Sussex , was born in the city of Exe . ter , in 1671. Having been educated in the gram- mar school belonging to Magdalen College , in Ox- ford , he was , in ...
... excellence . THO YALDEN . HOMAS YALDEN , the sixth son of Mr. John Yalden , of Sussex , was born in the city of Exe . ter , in 1671. Having been educated in the gram- mar school belonging to Magdalen College , in Ox- ford , he was , in ...
Page 98
... excellence , and recommends them as the genuine effusions of the mind , which expresses a real passion in the language of nature . But the truth is , these Elegies have neither passion , na- ture , nor manners . Where there is fiction ...
... excellence , and recommends them as the genuine effusions of the mind , which expresses a real passion in the language of nature . But the truth is , these Elegies have neither passion , na- ture , nor manners . Where there is fiction ...
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