Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenOctagon Books, 1967 - 568 páginas |
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... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
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... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combina- tions of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combina- tions of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem ...
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... excellence . What more can be expected from a life spent in ostentatious contempt of regularity , and ended before the abilities of many other men began to be displayed ? I Eng . Poets , xv . p . 67 . 2 A Defence of Satyr . 3 I quote ...
... excellence . What more can be expected from a life spent in ostentatious contempt of regularity , and ended before the abilities of many other men began to be displayed ? I Eng . Poets , xv . p . 67 . 2 A Defence of Satyr . 3 I quote ...
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