The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with mankind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits or clash of wit , in which nothing flows ...
... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with mankind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits or clash of wit , in which nothing flows ...
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... mind re- plete with images , and quick in combination . Of his miscellaneous poetry I cannot say any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when ...
... mind re- plete with images , and quick in combination . Of his miscellaneous poetry I cannot say any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when ...
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... launch'd the world to float in ambient air . The con- Of his irregular poems , that to mrs . Arabella Hunt seems to be the best ; his ode for St. Cecilia's day , however , has some lines which Pope had in his mind when he CONGREVE . 11.
... launch'd the world to float in ambient air . The con- Of his irregular poems , that to mrs . Arabella Hunt seems to be the best ; his ode for St. Cecilia's day , however , has some lines which Pope had in his mind when he CONGREVE . 11.
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... mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to greatness which he denied to genius , and degraded himself , by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and ...
... mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to greatness which he denied to genius , and degraded himself , by conferring that authority over the national taste , which he takes from the poets , upon men of high rank and ...
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... mind ; by which means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infi- nite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and ...
... mind ; by which means the imagination can with great facility range the wide field of nature , contemplate an infi- nite variety of objects , and , by observing the similitude and disagreement of their several qualities , single out and ...
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