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... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
... present work - Reception of the Author's first publication — The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope .
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... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction ... to define with the utmost impartiality the real poetic character of the poet , by whose writings this controversy ...
... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction ... to define with the utmost impartiality the real poetic character of the poet , by whose writings this controversy ...
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... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
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He habituated me to compare Lucretius , ( in such extracts as I then read ) Terence , and above all the chaster poems of Catullus , not only with the Roman poets of the , so called , silver and brazen ages ; but with even those of the ...
He habituated me to compare Lucretius , ( in such extracts as I then read ) Terence , and above all the chaster poems of Catullus , not only with the Roman poets of the , so called , silver and brazen ages ; but with even those of the ...
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I. Ep . I. It was a double pleasure to me , and still remains a tender recollection , that I should have received from a friend so revered the first knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically ...
I. Ep . I. It was a double pleasure to me , and still remains a tender recollection , that I should have received from a friend so revered the first knowledge of a poet , by whose works , year after year , I was so enthusiastically ...
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