Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - English literature |
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... poetical character . Johnson alone , of all and a portion the eminent authors of this period , seems to have of that of directly copied the style of Pope and Dryden . The George III , publication of Percy's Reliques , and Warton's ...
... poetical character . Johnson alone , of all and a portion the eminent authors of this period , seems to have of that of directly copied the style of Pope and Dryden . The George III , publication of Percy's Reliques , and Warton's ...
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... poetical artist fully as much as the humble and penitent Christian . His works are numerous ; but the best are the ' Night Thoughts , ' the Universal Passion , ' and the tragedy of Revenge . The foundation of his great poem was family ...
... poetical artist fully as much as the humble and penitent Christian . His works are numerous ; but the best are the ' Night Thoughts , ' the Universal Passion , ' and the tragedy of Revenge . The foundation of his great poem was family ...
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... poetical imagery , bursts of sentiment , and rays of fancy , does the poet - divine clothe the trite and simple truths , that all is vanity , and that man is born to die ! These thoughts , O Night ! are thine ; From thee they came like ...
... poetical imagery , bursts of sentiment , and rays of fancy , does the poet - divine clothe the trite and simple truths , that all is vanity , and that man is born to die ! These thoughts , O Night ! are thine ; From thee they came like ...
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... poetical subject poetically treated - filled to overflowing with the richest materials of poetry , and the emanations of benevolence . In the Castle of Indolence we have the concentration or essence of those materials applied to a ...
... poetical subject poetically treated - filled to overflowing with the richest materials of poetry , and the emanations of benevolence . In the Castle of Indolence we have the concentration or essence of those materials applied to a ...
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... poetical work , The Fleece , devoted to 6 The care of sheep , the labours of the loom . The subject was not a happy one . How can a man write poetically , as was remarked by Johnson , of serges and druggets ? One critic asked Dodsley ...
... poetical work , The Fleece , devoted to 6 The care of sheep , the labours of the loom . The subject was not a happy one . How can a man write poetically , as was remarked by Johnson , of serges and druggets ? One critic asked Dodsley ...
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