Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Page 56
... pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain excellence . He has sometimes a striking line , or a ...
... pleasure by those who do not know the originals . His poetry is polished and pure ; the product of a mind too judicious to commit faults , but not sufficiently vigorous to attain excellence . He has sometimes a striking line , or a ...
Page 58
... Pleasures of Imagination , in which he founds art on the base of nature , and draws the principles of invention from dispositions inherent in the mind of man with skill and elegance , such as his contemners will not easily attain . As a ...
... Pleasures of Imagination , in which he founds art on the base of nature , and draws the principles of invention from dispositions inherent in the mind of man with skill and elegance , such as his contemners will not easily attain . As a ...
Page 83
... pleasure or advantage . Why she would en- deavour to destroy him by a lie - a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable , that ...
... pleasure or advantage . Why she would en- deavour to destroy him by a lie - a lie which could not gain credit , but must vanish of itself at the first moment of examination , and of which only this can be said to make it probable , that ...
Page 84
... pleasure in the calamities of one who had brought his life into danger , reproved her gently for her perjury , and , changing the only guinea that he had , divided it equally between her and himself . This is an action which in some ...
... pleasure in the calamities of one who had brought his life into danger , reproved her gently for her perjury , and , changing the only guinea that he had , divided it equally between her and himself . This is an action which in some ...
Page 86
... pleasures which he could not afford to enjoy , and which he was not able to deny himself , though he purchased the luxury of a single night by the anguish of cold and hunger for a week . The experience of these inconveniences determined ...
... pleasures which he could not afford to enjoy , and which he was not able to deny himself , though he purchased the luxury of a single night by the anguish of cold and hunger for a week . The experience of these inconveniences determined ...
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