Lives of the English Poets, Volumen1Oxford University Press, 1926 |
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... nature nor life ; завточ neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that ...
... nature nor life ; завточ neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that ...
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... nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fond ...
... nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fond ...
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... natural port is ( gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
... natural port is ( gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
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