The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely anything is distinctly known , but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in the ...
Pàgina 2
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
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... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the peruser the first pas- sage in either of ...
... given some credit to the answer of his oracle . Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the peruser the first pas- sage in either of ...
Pàgina 19
... given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he ...
... given rather a pleasing than a faithful representation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some modern graces , by which he ...
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... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments ...
... given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechanics ; so the most heroic sentiments ...
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