Lectures on the English PoetsDent, 1908 - 327 páginas |
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... Criticism is of wit and sense . The quantity of thought and observation in this work , for so young a man as Pope was when he wrote it , is wonderful : unless we adopt the supposition that most men of genius spend the rest of their ...
... Criticism is of wit and sense . The quantity of thought and observation in this work , for so young a man as Pope was when he wrote it , is wonderful : unless we adopt the supposition that most men of genius spend the rest of their ...
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... critics in their own defence . Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense . l . 209 , 10 . Some by old words to fame have made pretence , Ancients in phrase , mere moderns in their ...
... critics in their own defence . Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense . l . 209 , 10 . Some by old words to fame have made pretence , Ancients in phrase , mere moderns in their ...
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... criticism ; or strangles his intellectual offspring in the birth , lest they should come to an untimely end in the ... critics , either to tremble at their censures or set them at defiance , can write well . It is the business of ...
... criticism ; or strangles his intellectual offspring in the birth , lest they should come to an untimely end in the ... critics , either to tremble at their censures or set them at defiance , can write well . It is the business of ...
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