The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 48
... mind ; by which means the ima gination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and dis agreement of their several qualities , single out and ...
... mind ; by which means the ima gination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infinite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and dis agreement of their several qualities , single out and ...
Page 55
... mind was stored with general principles , and he left minute researches to those whom he considered as little minds . With this disposition he wrote most of his poems . Having formed a magnificent design , he was care- less of ...
... mind was stored with general principles , and he left minute researches to those whom he considered as little minds . With this disposition he wrote most of his poems . Having formed a magnificent design , he was care- less of ...
Page 62
... mind a very trifling occurrence . Fenton was one day in the company of Broome , his associate , and Ford , a clergyman , at that time too well known , whose abilities , instead of furnishing convivial merri- ment to the voluptuous and ...
... mind a very trifling occurrence . Fenton was one day in the company of Broome , his associate , and Ford , a clergyman , at that time too well known , whose abilities , instead of furnishing convivial merri- ment to the voluptuous and ...
Page 77
... mind is repelled by use less and apparent falsehood . Of his little poems the public judgment seems to be right ; they are neither much esteemed nor to- tally despised . The story of the apparition is borrowed from one of the tales of ...
... mind is repelled by use less and apparent falsehood . Of his little poems the public judgment seems to be right ; they are neither much esteemed nor to- tally despised . The story of the apparition is borrowed from one of the tales of ...
Page 98
... 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 , there is no passion ; he that describes himself as a shep- herd ...
... 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 , there is no passion ; he that describes himself as a shep- herd ...
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