Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Հատոր 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 էջ |
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... genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith , the author of ' Phædra and Hippolitus . ' The profession which he intended to follow was that of physic ; and he took much delight in natural ...
... genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith , the author of ' Phædra and Hippolitus . ' The profession which he intended to follow was that of physic ; and he took much delight in natural ...
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... genius . B A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose that the reader only scorns it for pretending to be verse . - JOHNSON : Life of Roscommon , vol . i . p . 207 . Philips , in his ' Cyder , ' has succeeded ...
... genius . B A poem frigidly didactic , without rhyme , is so near to prose that the reader only scorns it for pretending to be verse . - JOHNSON : Life of Roscommon , vol . i . p . 207 . Philips , in his ' Cyder , ' has succeeded ...
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... genius only is discovered by their works , it is just that their virtues should be recorded by their friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that ...
... genius only is discovered by their works , it is just that their virtues should be recorded by their friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that ...
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... genius . So that their fruitful mother , like the mother of the gods , seems to have produced a numerous offspring , all of different though uncommon faculties . Of the living , neither their modesty nor the humour of the present age ...
... genius . So that their fruitful mother , like the mother of the gods , seems to have produced a numerous offspring , all of different though uncommon faculties . Of the living , neither their modesty nor the humour of the present age ...
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... genius have done the former ; but Philips , Garth , and Boileau , only the latter . A picture in miniature is every painter's talent ; but a piece for a cupola , where all the figures are enlarged , yet proportioned to the eye ...
... genius have done the former ; but Philips , Garth , and Boileau , only the latter . A picture in miniature is every painter's talent ; but a piece for a cupola , where all the figures are enlarged , yet proportioned to the eye ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1857 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1864 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Հատոր 2 Samuel Johnson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
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