English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... sort is wrapped within the fold of the proposed subject , and takes not the course of his own invention , whether they properly be poets or no let grammarians dispute ; and go to the third , indeed right poets , of whom chiefly this ...
... sort is wrapped within the fold of the proposed subject , and takes not the course of his own invention , whether they properly be poets or no let grammarians dispute ; and go to the third , indeed right poets , of whom chiefly this ...
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... sort of duplicates of what we had , possibly much better , before ; increasing the mere drug of books , while all that makes them valuable , knowledge and genius , are at a stand . The pen of an original writer , like Armida's wand ...
... sort of duplicates of what we had , possibly much better , before ; increasing the mere drug of books , while all that makes them valuable , knowledge and genius , are at a stand . The pen of an original writer , like Armida's wand ...
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... sort of moral prudery , he concealed it , where he should have let loose all his fire , and have showed the most tender sensi- bilities of heart . At his celebrated Cato , few tears are shed , but Cato's own ; which , indeed , are truly ...
... sort of moral prudery , he concealed it , where he should have let loose all his fire , and have showed the most tender sensi- bilities of heart . At his celebrated Cato , few tears are shed , but Cato's own ; which , indeed , are truly ...
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