LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 25
... seems to have had , what Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excell all that have ...
... seems to have had , what Milton is believed to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excell all that have ...
Page 26
... seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the perusal . of his works will ...
... seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the perusal . of his works will ...
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... seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the ...
... seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the ...
Page 39
... seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing ... seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the ...
... seem to comprise very incongruous and unsociable ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing ... seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the ...
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... seems to have divided his ftudies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again ...
... seems to have divided his ftudies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again ...
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