Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... Lady Vere . His lines prefixed to Paradise Lost are by no means the most favourable specimen of his powers . Butler's Hudibras is a poem of more wit than any other in the language . The rhymes have as much genius in them as the thoughts ...
... Lady Vere . His lines prefixed to Paradise Lost are by no means the most favourable specimen of his powers . Butler's Hudibras is a poem of more wit than any other in the language . The rhymes have as much genius in them as the thoughts ...
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... lady out to dance a minuet . He is delicate to fastidiousness , and glad to get back , after a romantic adventure with crazy Kate , a party of gypsies or a little child on a common , to the drawing - room and the ladies again , to the ...
... lady out to dance a minuet . He is delicate to fastidiousness , and glad to get back , after a romantic adventure with crazy Kate , a party of gypsies or a little child on a common , to the drawing - room and the ladies again , to the ...
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... ladies , satirists and philosophers . He has also effected this transformation without once violating probability , or " o'erstepping the modesty of nature . " In fact , Gay has turned the tables on the critics ; and by the assumed ...
... ladies , satirists and philosophers . He has also effected this transformation without once violating probability , or " o'erstepping the modesty of nature . " In fact , Gay has turned the tables on the critics ; and by the assumed ...
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... ladies of the bedchamber in the reign of Louis XV . found no fault with the immoral tendency of his writings . Why then should our modern purists quarrel with them ? -But to return . Young is a gloomy epigrammatist . He has abused great ...
... ladies of the bedchamber in the reign of Louis XV . found no fault with the immoral tendency of his writings . Why then should our modern purists quarrel with them ? -But to return . Young is a gloomy epigrammatist . He has abused great ...
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... Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament is not , I think , quite equal to the lines beginning- " O waly , waly , up the bank , And waly , waly , down the brae , And waly , waly , yon burn side , Where I and my love wont to gae . I leant my back unto ...
... Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament is not , I think , quite equal to the lines beginning- " O waly , waly , up the bank , And waly , waly , down the brae , And waly , waly , yon burn side , Where I and my love wont to gae . I leant my back unto ...
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