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The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood ...
The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood ...
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A finer compliment was never paid , nor a finer lesson ever read to the pride of learning . — The intermediate comic parts , in which Faustus is not directly concerned , are mean and grovelling to the last degree .
A finer compliment was never paid , nor a finer lesson ever read to the pride of learning . — The intermediate comic parts , in which Faustus is not directly concerned , are mean and grovelling to the last degree .
Page 329
... of present times may sort better with ancient examples , than with those of the latter or immediate times ; and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse .
... of present times may sort better with ancient examples , than with those of the latter or immediate times ; and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse .
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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