Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... Lord Shaftesbury complains of his rude unpolished style , and his antiquated phrase and wit . It is certain that , for nearly a hundred years after his death , partly owing to the immediate revolution and rebellion , and partly to the ...
... Lord Shaftesbury complains of his rude unpolished style , and his antiquated phrase and wit . It is certain that , for nearly a hundred years after his death , partly owing to the immediate revolution and rebellion , and partly to the ...
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... Lord Shaftesbury , who may be taken as half way between Dryden and Pope , ( Dryden died in 1700 , Pope was then twelve years old , and Lord S. wrote chiefly , we believe , between 1700 and 1710 , ) complains , ' it seems , of his rude ...
... Lord Shaftesbury , who may be taken as half way between Dryden and Pope , ( Dryden died in 1700 , Pope was then twelve years old , and Lord S. wrote chiefly , we believe , between 1700 and 1710 , ) complains , ' it seems , of his rude ...
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... Lord Shaftesbury was a man of crazy constitution , querulous from ill health , and had received an eccentric educa- tion from his eccentric grandfather . He was practised daily in talking Latin , to which afterwards he added a competent ...
... Lord Shaftesbury was a man of crazy constitution , querulous from ill health , and had received an eccentric educa- tion from his eccentric grandfather . He was practised daily in talking Latin , to which afterwards he added a competent ...
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... Lord Shaftesbury nor Addison read any thing for the latter years of their lives but Bayle's Dictionary . And most of the little scintillations of erudition , which may be found in the notes to the Characteristics , and in the Essays of ...
... Lord Shaftesbury nor Addison read any thing for the latter years of their lives but Bayle's Dictionary . And most of the little scintillations of erudition , which may be found in the notes to the Characteristics , and in the Essays of ...
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... Lord Shaftes- bury ; not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal impri- matur would be influential and serviceable no less when ...
... Lord Shaftes- bury ; not from undervaluing modern poetry , but from caring little or nothing for any poetry , although he wrote about its mechanic rules . Still the royal impri- matur would be influential and serviceable no less when ...
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