The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 11
... tell ! Nothing but groans and sighs were heard around , And echo multiplied each mournful sound . In both these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many syllables of senseless dolour , he dismisses his reader with senseless ...
... tell ! Nothing but groans and sighs were heard around , And echo multiplied each mournful sound . In both these funeral poems , when he has yelled out many syllables of senseless dolour , he dismisses his reader with senseless ...
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... tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) ...
... tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) ...
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... tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine his performances one by one would be tedi- His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few ...
... tell it so well . He trans- lates from Ovid the same epistle as Pope ; but I am afraid not with equal happiness . ous . To examine his performances one by one would be tedi- His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few ...
Pàgina 36
... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your character in the fairest light to some who either mis- took you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your character in the fairest light to some who either mis- took you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
Pàgina 65
... tell . The character of the elegy is gentleness and tenuity ; but this stanza has been pro- nounced by Dryden , whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable , to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language ...
... tell . The character of the elegy is gentleness and tenuity ; but this stanza has been pro- nounced by Dryden , whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable , to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language ...
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