The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Samuel Johnson. nus , a poet now little known or read , though once the friend of Luther and Melancthon : De Sacerdote Furem consolante . Quidam sacrificus furem comitatus euntem Huc ubi dat sontes carnificina neci , Ne sis mœstus , ait ...
Samuel Johnson. nus , a poet now little known or read , though once the friend of Luther and Melancthon : De Sacerdote Furem consolante . Quidam sacrificus furem comitatus euntem Huc ubi dat sontes carnificina neci , Ne sis mœstus , ait ...
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... poet , he had not recovered from our Pindaric infatuation ; but he probably lived to be convinced , that the essence of verse is order and consonance . His numbers are such as mere diligence may attain ; they seldom offend the ear , and ...
... poet , he had not recovered from our Pindaric infatuation ; but he probably lived to be convinced , that the essence of verse is order and consonance . His numbers are such as mere diligence may attain ; they seldom offend the ear , and ...
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... poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty and enlarged with majesty ...
... poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty and enlarged with majesty ...
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... poet not by necessity but inclination , and wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his ...
... poet not by necessity but inclination , and wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his ...
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... poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis ...
... poet sinks , the man rises ; the animadversions of Dennis , insolent and contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment : he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis ...
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