Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenOctagon Books, 1967 - 568 páginas |
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... sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur , but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous 2 ; he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or ...
... sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur , but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous 2 ; he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or ...
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... sometimes interested , sometimes negligent , and sometimes capricious . It is not without reason 1 ( ' Errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire . ' CICERO , Tusc . i . 17 , 39 . It was Clavius who , by order of Gregory XIII ...
... sometimes interested , sometimes negligent , and sometimes capricious . It is not without reason 1 ( ' Errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire . ' CICERO , Tusc . i . 17 , 39 . It was Clavius who , by order of Gregory XIII ...
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... sometimes grateful to the reader , and sometimes convenient to the poet . Fenton was of opinion that Dryden was too liberal and Pope too sparing in their use ' . 353 The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he valued himself for his ...
... sometimes grateful to the reader , and sometimes convenient to the poet . Fenton was of opinion that Dryden was too liberal and Pope too sparing in their use ' . 353 The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he valued himself for his ...
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